Abstract

Forest biorefinery enables the industry to increase its revenue by producing bioenergy and new biomaterials in addition to traditional wood, pulp, and paper products. The forest biorefinery concept also addresses the societal need to use renewable resources rather than fossil fuels to produce commodity products, liquid fuels, and electricity. The initial visualized forest biorefinery would be based on sulfur-free, alkaline pulping with an alkaline hemicellulose extraction step before pulping and spent pulping liquor gasification and lignin precipitation after pulping. New products from a forest biorefinery based on alkaline pulping include electric power, new wood composites, liquid fuel, ethanol, chemicals, and polymers. Preextraction generates a feed stream for new bioproducts, while reducing alkali consumption, increasing delignification rate, and reducing black liquor load. Black liquor gasification and/or lignin precipitation are an integral part of the forest biorefinery.

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