A THERMOCHEMICAL BIOREFINERY (TCB) INTEGRATION STRATEGY FOR PULP AND PAPER MILLS AND THE STATUS AND RESULTS OF AN OPERATING TCB PILOT PLANT, 2010 TAPPI PEERS Conference

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TRI (ThermoChem Recovery International) has been commercializing the thermochemical biorefinery platform in the Pulp and paper industry for over four years. The first part of this presentation will be to review the integration of the thermochemical biorefinery platform strategy in a pulp and paper mill and provide an update of two pulp and paper biorefineries currently in engineering design.

TRI has constructed a biomass gasification process demonstration unit (PDU) at Southern Research Institute’s Carbon to Liquids Research Center located at Durham NC. The PDU is designed to process 4 dry tons per day of biomass to syngas. It includes biomass storage and feed, gasification using a proprietary indirectly heated gasification technology, and gas clean-up. The PDU is designed to be integrated to any number of downstream catalytic processes to produce fuels and chemicals. It is currently integrated to Emerging Fuels Technologies (EFT) Fischer-Tropsch process. A number of trials have been run on various biomass feedstocks. The second part of this presentation will provide a review the status of the PDU, test results to date and future test plans.