From Initiative to Institute April 8, Hemant Pendse, Managing Director

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1 FBRI Pulp & Paper Foundation Paper Days: From Initiative to Institute April 8, 2009 Hemant Pendse, Managing Director

2 FBRI s Core Research From the forest floor to the factory floor, researchers, students, and project partners' goals are to: Promote Understand d Create Forest Health for a and Separate and Commercialize Stable Bio-Economy Wood Components New Bioproducts

4 Research Clusters organized by Use-Inspired Themes and Discovery-Driven Driven Thrusts USE INSPIRED THEME CORES Human Nano Bio Thermal Dimensions Technology Processing Processing DISCOVERY DRIVEN THRUST CORES

5 Source: Ken Laustsen, Maine Forest Service

6 Projected Nutrient Losses from Biomass Harvesting We use NCSU s NUTREM model to project N, P, K, Ca, and Mg use throughout the life of the three archetypal forest stand types (spruce-fir, mixedwood, and northern hardwood) under several levels of biomass removal over successive rotations. USDA Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data will be used to determine archetypal spruce-fir, mixed-wood, and northern hardwood stands. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) NE Variant will be used to project stand conditions over various periods of stand development. Ivan Fernandez & Bob Wagner, University of Maine Lee Allen, North Carolina State t University it

7 Stakeholder Views towards the Emerging BioProducts Industry in Maine Overall, over 100 one-hour interviews were conducted across a wide range of stakeholder groups, including: 40 forest landowners 24 members of the forest products industry 40 secondary stakeholders external to the industry A mail survey has been developed and sent to: (1) 1,500 Maine households state-wide; and (2) 1,000 Maine households located in towns with an active or recently active pulp and paper mill. Robert J. Lilieholm & Jessica Leahy, School of Forest Resources Terry L. Porter, Maine Business School

9 1. Unmarketable Biomass 2. Hog Fuel Chips to Heat & Power 3. Sawdust Wood Logs to Saw Mill 4. Wood Strands to OSB plant 5. Wood Chips to Pulp Mill Wood Flows

10 1. Unmarketable Biomass Pyrolysis Liquid 2. Hog Fuel Chips to Heat & Power Syngas 3. Sawdust Wood Logs to Saw Mill 4. Wood Strands to OSB plant 5. Wood Chips to Pulp Mill New carbohydrate feedstock Mixed Sugars Direct Conversion Products

11 Integrated Forest Biorefinery Chemicals Levulinic, Acetic and Formic Acids Liquid Fuels Jet Fuel, Diesel Additive, Ethanol/Butanol Materials Commodity Market Pulp Specialty Market Pulps Nanocellulose, Hemicelluloses

12 Fuels, Chemicals, and Materials from Woody Biomass Various forest bioproducts being pursued by Maine s FBRI include: (1) ethanol, (2) butanol, (3) Green diesel / Jetfuel, (4) Green gasoline, (5) green heating oil, (6) bio-crude, (7) acetic acid, (8) levulinic acid, (9) functional substitutes (e.g. dry strength additives), (10) bioplastics (PLA), (11) advanced wood-plastic composites, and (12) cellulosic nano-composites.

13 Changing the way we process wood Extraction prior to pulping p offers a new aqueous extract stream and optimized brownstock made from residual woodchips as new intermediates Other opportunities exits for biomass boiler fuel-feed and OSB feed Xylan from the extract stream can be fermented into ethanol, butanol, or acetic acid by using appropriate microbes, providing flexibility Other opportunities exit for bioplastics Residual woodchips after extraction can be converted into Modified brownstock feed optimized for new uses New materials like nanocellulose for composites

14 Plan with a Purpose: Lead! Science & Technology Research Infrastructure NSF EPSCoR DOE EPSCoR $13 M Research Personnel Bench/Lab Scale Analytical Batch Processes Technology Center State R&D Bond & Private Funds $10 20 M * Large Scale Processing * Hemi Extraction * Biological and Thermochemical Converstion of Ag & Forest Biomass Technology Cluster Private Funds/Govt Grants $50 - $200 M Integrated Ag & Forest Biorefinery Co-located at: Pulp mill Co-Gen site OSB/OSL Plant Saw Mill/Chip Mill Potato Processing Plants Forest and Ag Bioproducts Technology Development Continuum

15 Green Products Cluster at the interface of three sectors Adapted from : Green Products Executive Summary/Maine s Technology Sectors and Clusters: Status and Strategy/March 2008

16 2. Proposed Technology Center 1. New Biorefinery Pulp Mill

17 umaine edu Regional Resource

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