Inauguration of World’s First Plant for BioDME Production
(Chemrec) …BioDME is a novel and climate neutral biofuel produced from forestry feedstock. The fuel is primarily intended for use in heavy vehicles. BioDME provides superior energy and environmental benefits and allows greenhouse gas emission reductions of up to 95% compared with conventional diesel.
The global potential for BioDME is around 30 million tons of diesel equivalents per year, enough to fuel a million heavy trucks.
This pilot plant is built at the Smurfit Kappa pulp and container board mill and utilizes the pulping process by-product black liquor to produce the fuel. The biofuels process is based on gasification technology from Chemrec AB and fuel synthesis technology from Haldor Topsøe A/S. Volvo Trucks, Swedish fuels company Preem, French oil and gas giant Total, auto parts company Delphi and local research institute ETC are also participating in the project. The BioDME produced is used in a truck test fleet from Volvo. Operators of the vehicles include DHL, Green Cargo and Posten Logistics.
At the inauguration the components of the project will be presented and the participants will be guided through the plant. We will follow the biofuels production process “from wood to wheel” including description by Preem of distribution and vehicle filling and the vehicle technology of Volvo Trucks.
Speakers at the inauguration are County Governor of Norrbotten Per-Ola Eriksson, Kyriakos Maniatis, Principal Administrator, Directorate General for Energy, European Commission, Chemrec CEO Max Jönsson, Haldor Topsøes General Manager Jens Perregaard, Smurfit Kappa Kraftliners MD Dirk Poot and Peter Roslund, Mayor of Piteå. Moderator is Robert Bergman, Manager of Solander Communications. READ MORE and MORE Photos and MORE (Chemrec China)
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