Integration Of Biomass Gasification With A Scandinavian Mechanical Pulp And Paper Mill - Consequences For Mass And Energy Balances And Global CO2 Emissions
Journal article, 2012

The Scandinavian mechanical pulp and paper industry has been facing great challenges during the past decades, mainly because of declining demand for newsprint, and higher prices on raw material and energy. One way of increasing profitability is to produce more value-added products besides the production of pulp and paper. In this study, integration potentials of three possible future biomass gasification-based energy mills with an existing thermo-mechanical pulp (TMP) mill, co-located with a sawmill, have been evaluated. The product gas was utilized for electricity production in a gas turbine, for production of methanol or for production of FischereTropsch (FT) liquids. Integration of the energy mills showed good potential as the TMP mill constitutes a heat sink for which the excess heat from the energy mills can be utilized all year round. However, since there is little excess heat from the TMP mill at the required level to be utilized for biomass drying, for example, heat integration is typically one way. It has also been shown that integration of biomass gasification with a TMP mill results in larger CO2 emissions reduction than stand-alone operation. Still, compared to co-firing biomass in a coal power plant, the energy mills all have lower potentials for CO2 emissions reduction.

CO2 emissions

Thermo-mechanical pulp and paper mill

Biorefinery

Process integration

Biomass gasification

Energy efficiency

Author

Johan Isaksson

Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies

Karin Pettersson

Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies

Maryam Mahmoudkhani

Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies

Anders Åsblad

Thore Berntsson

Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies

Energy

0360-5442 (ISSN) 18736785 (eISSN)

Vol. 44 1 420-428

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Chemical Process Engineering

Energy Systems

Areas of Advance

Energy

DOI

10.1016/j.energy.2012.06.013

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10/7/2017