Fractionating lignocellulosic biomass efficiently is far from being a mundane or trivial task. Within plant biomass (lignocellulose) there are several components (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin), each of which carries their own requirements for dissolution. To enable a holistic valorization of biomass, those components should be fractionated to individual streams of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to…
Dr. Leonidas Matsakas with the organosolv reactor in the Institue of Biochemical Process Engineering, at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden You are working on the “Organosolv fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass” and are at the beginning of the FLEXI-GREEN FUELS process. Could you describe in simple words the organosolv process? Organosolv is a process in which…
Bringing a novel process all the way to the market is not an easy task. A key factor to succeed is to minimize all losses that can potentially destroy the overall profitability. In Flexi-Green Fuels, KIRAM has studied and validated the delicate process of recovering the solvent used in Organosolv to enable efficient recirculation. One…
FLEXI-GREEN FUELS spent 2 days in Luleå. The host of this meeting was Luleå University of Technology.
A recent achievement for Tove Kristensen was working with HUL’s catalysts on AUTH’s units. Together, they were able to benefit from the visit and fasten the production of hydrodeoxygenated biofuel samples from lignin bio-oil.
In the FLEXI-GREEN FUELS project, our partner ENORM is one of the key players when it comes to the transformation of biomass sugars into lipids.
