Business GuidenessG BIOMASS BOILERS AND CHP PLANTS 90 kW – 15 MW Padova / Italy - www.uniconfort.com ValChem project lands EUR 13.1 million in EU funding 28 Bioenergy International No 80, 4-2015 28 Bioenergy International No 80, 4-2015 ENABLING EMISSIONS COMPLIANCE WITH CYCLONES The new Agglomerator Cyclone (Hurricane MK) is the most efficient cyclone in the world and consistently reduces particulate emissions under 30mg/Nm3. Biomass Combustion and Biomass Drying www.acsystems.pt p e l l e t p l a n t s & c o m p o n e n t s » chipping dryer, air grader screening cleaning energy systems pelletizing www.dieffenbacher.com Canadian plans to impose new national base-level industrial emissions standards Finnish forest industry major UPM has announced that its ValChem project has received EUR 13.1 million in funding from the European Union (EU). ValChem (Value-added Chemical building blocks and lignin from wood) is a project combining the competences of forest, chemical and bio-technology industries to realise a sustainable and innovative integrated process from wood to end products. The total project budget is around EUR 18.5 million and will be carried out in cooperation with Swedish ethanol producer and distributor Sekab, French bio-chemical process engineers METabolic EXplorer, and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. The ValChem project is part of the Bio-Based Industries (BBI) Joint Undertaking, a new EUR 3.7 billion Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the EU and the Biobased Industries Consortium (BIC), an association that was specifically established in 2012 to collectively represent the private sector in the BBI. BIC hosts a unique mix of sectors including agriculture, agro-food, technology providers, the forest-based sector, chemicals, and energy. The aim of the project is to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of an integrated biochemicals process covering the whole value chain from raw wood material to a selected platform of chemical and lignin based performance chemicals. It will utilise existing technologies from project partners to produce wood-based chemicals that are performance and cost-competitive with fossil alternatives including SEKAB’s CelluAPP® technology for a wood to sugars and METabolic EXplorer’s sugar to mono propylene glycol (bio-MPG) process. BI80/4917/AS
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