Scandinavian Hardwood Biorefinery Using “near-neutral” Hemicelluloses Pre-extraction- Energy Efficiency Measures
Paper in proceeding, 2011

While in a conventional mill, the hemicelluloses and lignin fraction of the wood is burned in the recovery boiler to produce steam, in a biorefinery it can be used to produce added value products. In this paper, a comprehensive heat integration study for an average Scandinavian kraft model mill, as well as for a hemicelluloses extraction process with further utilization for ethanol production, is performed. The results show that when the total integration of the hemicelluloses utilization process with the mill is considered, the integrated biorefinery could become self-sufficient in terms of steam.

Pulp mill

Biorefinery

Hemicellulose extraction

Hardwood

process integration

Pinch analysis

Bioethanol

Near-neutral

Author

Valeria Mora

Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies

Maryam Mahmoudkhani

Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies

Thore Berntsson

Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies

Chemical Engineering Transactions

22839216 (eISSN)

Vol. 2011 25 411-416
978-88-95608-16-7 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Energy

Subject Categories

Other Chemical Engineering

DOI

10.3303/CET1125069

ISBN

978-88-95608-16-7

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11/5/2018