Pulping of waste wood

In the time when the awareness of the biomass as a limited resource drives the efforts to increase resource efficiency (in the forest industry in particular), waste construction wood is mainly incinerated. This happens even though it contains attractive bio-building blocks that could be converted into a number of high-value products.
To access these building blocks, the waste wood needs to be subjected to pulping and thus introduced into raw material streams to pulp mills. Yet, the pulping behavior of this wood is completely unknown. This project will adress that.
The project gathers competences and perspectives from academic research, pulping industry and material recycling. There will be special focus on identifying deviations from the pulping behavior of virgin wood, such as cooking chemical demand, pulping kinetics and properties of the obtained pulp and lignin. In light of that, requirements on the existing processes and future process design in the mills will be analysed.

Merima Hasani
Chalmers University of Technology
merima.hasani@chalmers.se
Project information
Participants
Chalmers
Södra
Ragn-Sells
Time schedule
December 2023 - December 2025
Total cost of project
2 745 428 SEK
Swedish Energy Agency project number
2023-01096
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