BtoMI - Low value biomass to high quality manufacturing industry
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Meva Energy AB (publ) |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 4 613 469 |
| Project duration | November 2019 - June 2022 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | The strategic innovation programme Bioinnovation |
| Call | Key Enabling Technologies for Biobased Products - joint call Sweden-Finland |
Important results from the project
The overall objective of the project was to develop an integrated system solution between gasifiers and industrial burners that enables fossil gas to be replaced in industry with syngas from biomass in a cost-effective manner. This objective is considered to have been fulfilled and has also been demonstrated in the form of the tissue company Sofidel signing a contract to set up the developed gasification and burner system at their mill in Kisa.
Expected long term effects
The project has resulted in a cost-effective solution for the production of renewable gas to replace fossil gas in industry and with the potential to use more low-value biofuels. Just in the first installation that the project led to, there is a potential to reduce the CO2 footprint by up to 10,300 tons annually.
Approach and implementation
After an initial analysis, the project group set up a specification for the gas qualities that low-value feedstock could entail. In this way, the system could be developed for more than just fiber sludge. Based on this, a burner solution was developed which was tested at the Meva Energy´s facility in Hortlax. After this, the gasification plant and the biochar handling system could be redesigned and will be installed with the new type of multifuel burner at Sofidel´s mill in Kisa.