BeWhere Sweden Integration of forest based biofuel production with existing industry

1st International BeWhere Workshop 8-9 October 2013, IIASA

Elisabeth Wetterlund, LTU

Background and context

• f3 – Swedish knowledge centre for renewable transportation fuels

• From district heating to industries • Swedish context – forest

Model overview

Integrated biofuel

production

Transport fuel market

Stem wood

Residue flows

International market

Forest industry

Energy companies

Other industry

Electricity market

District heating demand

Electricity production

Heat production

(net specific)

Fossil fuels

Supply

Demand Reference system

Biofuel production

CO2 emissions, costs, prices, policies

Model overview

• Half degree grid • Plant locations expressed

explicitly • Demands, prices etc on

country (NUTS 1) or country (NUTS 3) level

Forest resources – supply

Forest resources – demand from industry

TWh/year

Forest resources – demand from energy sector

TWh/year

Integration possibilities

Transport fuel demand

Preliminary results 2 TWh/y 4 TWh/y 6 TWh/y

Preliminary results 2 TWh/y 4 TWh/y 6 TWh/y

No black liquor gasification

Model to-do-list

• Potential plant localisations Oil refineries, chemical industry, iron and steel industry, energy sector…

• Biomass resources Agricultural feedstocks, waste…

• Technologies and biofuels SNG, biogas, methanol, 1st generation…

• Intermediary products Torrefication, pyrolysis, FT crude…

• Import, export

On-going projects

• Scenario analysis – Roadmap 2050 • Analysis of site specific parameters • Update of industrial integration data

Planned projects

• BeWhere Sweden III – Agriculture-based biofuels and benefits for society

• Future district heating – Competition of biomass and possible conflicting targets

• Realization of future biorefineries: from demonstration to optimal localization

Summary BeWhere Sweden

• Detailed site-specific integration data • Inclusion of new and distributed

value chains • Complements aggregated energy

systems models