D.Tech. Annaleena Kokko, Program Manager, FuBio Joint Research 2

WP leaders: Risto Korpinen, Alistar King, Antti Ojala, Jonas Hartman,Jarmo Ropponen, Niina Saarinen-Aaltonen, Eemeli Hytönen

FIBIC Future Biorefineries

Development of thecompetence platform inwood biorefinery R&D

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FOCUS ANDINDUSTRIALRELEVANCE

TIME

Joint Research

Value chain

Industry-led

CommercialSpin-out company

Main playground of SHOK programs

Position of SHOK programs

FuBio – Future Biorefinery program• FuBio program

• 5 year (2009-2014) program entity of FIBIC

• Currently, the on-going programs are FuBio Joint Research 2 andFuBio Cellulose (both 1.6.2011-31.5.2014)

• Main objective: to establish a world-leading competence platformin the field of wood biorefinery R&D in Finland & for Finland

• Focus of FuBio: Novel value chains, in which wood is refinedinto new materials & chemicals

• A competence platform comprises many attributes, for example• People• Business concepts• Processing technologies• R&D and testing facilities, and• Networking

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Competence platform of FuBio

New Cellulose Productsand Process Technologies

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EDCO2/UF

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Water

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EVAP

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to foul condensate

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ED

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to foul condensateVA

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HA – hydroxy acidsISA – Isosaccharinic acidsED – electrodialysisCHR – chromatographyIEX – ion exchangeUF – ultrafiltrationEVAP – evaporation

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Fractionation of biomass : biorefinery concept

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Fractionation by ionic liquids

IONCELLPhase-

separableionic liquids

(PSILs)

‘Distillable’ionic liquids

(DILs)

‘Switchable’ionic liquids

(SILs)

Recycling PurificationTechno-economic modeling

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Competence in biorefinery products1) Production of glycolic acid ~15 g l-1 has been achieved by bioreactor

cultivations of the engineered Kluyveromyces lactis strain– Koivistoinen, O.M., Kuivanen, J., Barth D., Turkia H., Pitkänen, J-P.,

Penttilä, M., Richard, P., Glycolic acid production in the engineeredyeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis, 2013,Microb Cell Fact 12: 16 pp

2) In health-promoting products: the work paves way for the development ofhigh-value products from lignocellulosic material sources and is valuable aspart of the industrial renewal process (4 IDs to date)

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Competence in biorefinery products3) The developed lignin-fiber composite materials demonstrate competitive

tensile properties when compared to commercial WPC materials (i.e. woodfiber reinforced polyolefins) (3 IDs, 1 patent application).

4) A concept for the production of 3D mouldable paper in paper mill hasbeen developed. The paper material has in lab scale demonstrated betterperformance than commercial samples. (3 IDs)

5) The preparation process for cellulosic membranes utilizing IL as a solventhas been tuned to result UF membranes of properties equal to commercialRC-membranes.

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FuBio - Summary

• The competence platform in wood biorefinery R&D has reachedhigh international quality in several topics

• Main competence impacts in the wood biorefinery R&D– To date 88 peer reviewed articles from the program– Over 115 international conference presentations– 34 MSc thesis finished– 5 PhD thesis finished & over 40 PhD thesis ongoing– 44 Invention disclosures– More than 10 patent applications

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FuBio - Summary• Currently the main industrial impacts of wood biorefinery R&D:

– 5 of the patent applications are owned by an industrial partner orpartners

– Techno-economic modeling has shown feasibility in new businessconcepts

– New processing technologies and solutions are available– R&D and testing facilities and cooperation among partners are excellent– Networking within Finland has developed into solid international

cooperation– Multiple possibilities for the industry partners to start company driven

product development projects together with experienced researchers

– We are several steps closer to the next generation biorefineries