Description du projet
Une nouvelle méthode de traitement de la biomasse en voie de commercialisation
La société finlandaise CH-Bioforce Oy a mis au point une technologie révolutionnaire permettant de convertir tous les composants de la biomasse en produits de grande valeur de manière économiquement rentable. Cette technologie est flexible et peut utiliser pratiquement n’importe quel type de biomasse comme matière première, par exemple le bois de bouleau, de pin, d’épicéa et d’eucalyptus, et même la paille ou la bagasse de blé. Elle représente donc une option renouvelable et compétitive pour remplacer les matières premières fossiles et alimentaires dans une grande variété d’applications, notamment dans les domaines des textiles, des produits chimiques et des plastiques. L’objectif du projet CHBTECH, financé par l’UE, est de faire passer la maturité technologique de la solution de TRL 7 à TRL 9 et de préparer l’expansion de l’entreprise.
Objectif
Wood-based biomass is one of the richest sources of bio-chemicals on Earth. Of the main constituents of wood – cellulose (40-50%), hemicellulose (20-30%) and lignin (20-30%) – mainly cellulose/pulp is utilised today. Rest of the biomass is disposed as waste. The main obstacle for wider use and further development of these hemicellulose and lignin is the lack of availability. Furthermore, current fractionation methods (based on Kraft process) use sulphur, which destroys the material properties of valuable bio-chemicals.
CH-Bioforce Oy has developed a sulphur-free biomass fractionation technology, which allows the extraction of all three wood-based biomass constituents in an economically sound way, with extremely high purity, and in industrial scale. Technology is flexible in size, and can utilize practically any kind of wood as raw material, e.g. birch, pine, spruce, eucalyptus, even wheat straw and bagasse. The process works well even with low quality wood, such as sawdust and logging residues, which are not suitable for commonly used pulping processes.
CH-Bioforce´s technology offers a renewable and cost-competitive option to replace fossil and food-based raw materials in a wide variety of applications, e.g in textiles, chemicals, and plastics. Company has conducted an intensive material testing and evaluation for dissolving pulp, polymeric hemicellulose and sulphur-free lignin produced by their pilot plants, and has already attracted several global corporations in energy, pulp&paper, and chemical industries. Business model for CH-Bioforce is to licence its technology to companies, who aim to produce and sell bio-based raw materials. Aim of this proposed project is to develop CH-Bioforce´s technology from current TRL-7 to TRL-9, to prepare the business scale up, and to convince the first customer to make the investment decision by the end of the project.
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
02170 Espoo
Finlande
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.