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tipo de financiamento	European Comission
programa	FP7-NMP
acrónimo/ referência	AFORE
referência alternative	228589
grupo(s) de investigação	4 - biorrefinarias, materiais de origem biológica e reciclagem;
departamento	Chemistry (DQ)
período de execução	2009-09-01 - 2013-08-31 ( 48 Meses )
resumo/ palavras-chave	The approach of AFORE project is to develop novel, industrially adaptable and techno-economically viable bio-based solutions for the separation, fractionation, and primary upgrading of green chemicals from forest residues, wood chips, and chemical pulping liquors to be used as starting materials for current and novel value-added applications. It is targeted that by this means European forest and pulping industry can substantially increase its profitability and overall income within 10 years with positive impact on the waste formation and sustainability of the process. The project will focus on two paths, namely upgrading the current kraft pulping process into a multi-product biorefinery concept and development of entirely new wood-based biorefinery concepts, in which the wood cellulose is exploited in value-added applications with simultaneous production of a multitude of novel non-cellulosic products. The success of the technological developments will be evaluated using different modelling and assessment tools and by pilot and mill scale demonstrations. The techno-economical evaluations will also include a thorough investigation of how the new side-stream -based value chains will affect the current end-uses (mainly energy) as well as the environmental footprint of production. The multidisciplinary project consortium consists of research and industrial partners covering the whole value chain from wood to end products. The expertises of the partners include wood and pulp and paper processing, physical, chemical and biotechnical biomaterial processing, component isolation and upgrading, sophisticated biomaterial analysis, environmental and techno-economical modelling and assessment of processes, products and business scenarios related thereof.
coordenador /ip local	Armando Jorge Domingues Silvestre
ciceco status	Parceiro
instituíção proponente	TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT
instituições participante(s)	Danisco Sweeteners Oy; Finland; INNVENTIA AB; Sweden; OY KESKUSLABORATORIO - CENTRALLABORATORIUM AB; Finland; UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO; Portugal; FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V; Germany; HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO; Finland; Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH; Austria; CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS; Greece; STIFTELSEN SINTEF; Norway; INSTITUTUL DE CHIMIE MACROMOLECULARA PETRU PONI; Romania; Instituto Superior de Agronomia; Portugal; SODRA SKOGSAGARNA EKONOMISK FORENING; Sweden; CELULOSE BEIRA INDUSTRIAL SA; Portugal; Oy Separation Research Ab; Finland; NATEX PROZESSTECHNOLOGIE GESMBH; Austria; GRANIT RECHERCHE DEVELOPPEMENT SA; Switzerland; HTE AG THE HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION COMPANY; Germany; DANISCO SWEETENERS OY; Finland; University of Maine; United States; SODRA CELL; Sweden; Greenvalue SA; Switzerland
participação industrial	Sim
parceiro(s) internacional	Sim
orçamento total	10.746.919€
orçamento ciceco	876.199€
centro de custos	3.89.103
link	http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/94657_en.html