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From Wood to Wheel. The international meetingplace for industry and researchon pulpmill biorefinery.
The worlds first industrial scale production facility for renewable diesel from forest based feedstock and the worlds first BioDME pilot plant.
October 07, 09
On Friday September 18, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden broke ground for the world’s first plant for the production of a renewable automotive fuel called BioDME.
On Wednesday November 11, you all can come to Piteå and learn more about the BioDME plant and listen to keynote speakers at the Solander Symposium.
The plant will be built by Chemrec, a Sweden-based development company, within the company’s development unit located at the Smurfit Kappa paper mill in Piteå, Sweden. The pilot plant is expected to begin production in July 2010 with a capacity of about 4 tons (1,600 gallons) per day using forest residues as feedstock. The plant is being constructed as part of the BioDME project with consortium members Chemrec, Haldor Topsøe, Volvo, Preem, Total, Delphi and ETC.
The project is supported by the Swedish Energy Agency and the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme. At the event the full concept of the BioDME project – from wood to wheel – was presented for the first time. Preem presented fuel distribution and how to fill the tank, and Volvo Trucks demonstrated the first heavy-duty truck with an engine adapted for DME fuel. Volvo is coordinating the BioDME project and will put fourteen DME trucks into operation to carefully study in a field test whether BioDME is a viable option as a fuel for the heavy truck transports of the future.
Preem is also participating in the project by building four filling stations for BioDME to support the fleet test. This is part of Preem’s endeavor to increase sales of renewable fuels and contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
From Wood to Wheel is also the headline for Solander Symposium 2009.It is my pleasure to invite you to the Solander Symposium in Piteå, Sweden on 11-12 November 2009. The theme of the symposium is From Wood to Wheel.This is an opportunity for the participants to meet, discuss and exchange ideas about the future of Forest Bioenergy and pulp mill Biorefiner
Robert Bergman , Chairman for the Solander Symposium
Facts and figuresBioDME based on forestry or agricultural residues is a renewable and environmentally superior automotive fuel. The Chemrec process is used to produce BioDME from black liquor, a by-product of the pulp and paper industry. In the next phase Chemrec is planning to build an industrial-scale plant. The potential is significant; in Sweden up to half of all freight transportation by road could be fueled by BioDME, and globally well over 30 million m3 of diesel equivalents could be produced per year from the black liquor feedstock available. BioDME produced from forest residues using the Chemrec process could reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by around 95% compared to petroleum-based diesel oil, the traditional fuel used for heavy vehicles. The BioDME plant will strengthen Piteå’s position as a leading location for technology development and the production of renewable fuels as alternatives for transportation and heating. The BioDME consortium collaboration will lay the foundation for a new energy technology which will have a very significant and positive impact on the environment, the automotive industry, transport technology and the forest industry in Sweden and around the globe.