UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery
Nombre / Name
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UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery
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Empresa / Company
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UPM Biofuels (www.upmbiofuels.com)
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Localización / Location
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Lappeenranta (Finland)
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Categoría / Category
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Comercial / Commercial
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Estado / Status
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Operación / Running
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Plataforma / Platform
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Aceites / Oil
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Materia prima / Feedstock
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Tall oil
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Producto / Product
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Biodiésel
/ Biodiesel
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Puesta en marcha / Start-Up
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Enero 2015 / January 2015
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Figure 1. UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery
(extracted from UPM Biofuels webpage)
La primera biorrefinería del mundo que produce biodiesel a partir de
residuos forestales inició su funcionamiento comercial en enero de 2015. La
instalación está localizada en el mismo enclave que la planta papelera Kaukas
de UPM en las orillas del lago Saimaa en Lappeenranta al sudeste de Finlandia. La
capacidad de la planta es de 100.000 de toneladas al año y emplea a un total de
200 personas entre puestos directos e indirectos. El nombre comercial del
biodiésel que se produce en la planta es UPM BioVerno. The first biorefinery
in the world producing wood-based renewable diesel from forestry residue
started commercial production in January 2015. The facility is located on the
same site as the UPM Kaukas pulp and paper mill on the shore of the lake Saimaa
in South-Eastern Finland. The annual renewable diesel production is 100,000 ton
and the total persons employed are 200, directly and indirectly. The commercial
brand of the biodiesel produced in the plant is UPM BioVerno.
La materia prima para producir el diésel es tall oil bruto, un
subproducto en la fabricación de pasta de papel a partir de coníferas mediante
el proceso al sufato o Kraft. UPM utiliza el tall oil que tiene disponible en
sus plantas papeleras en Finlandia. De esta manera, realiza un aprovechamiento más
eficiente de la madera y no requiere cultivos adicionales para la
biorrefinería. El proceso empleado en la planta consta de cuatro pasos:
pretratamiento, hidrotratamiento, purificación del gas reciclado y
fraccionamiento. Crude tall oil is the renewable raw material
for biofuel production. It is a natural extract of wood, mainly from conifers,
and is gained as a result of the separation process of fibrous material from
wood. In Lappeenranta, a significant part of this
renewable raw material comes from UPM’s own pulp mills in Finland – like the
Kaukas mill site next door. The UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery is a minor
addition to the overall total demand for crude tall oil and is a new innovative
way to use that residue, which is often burned for energy. The process of the
plant consists of four steps: pretreatment, hydrotreatment, recycle gas
purification and fractionation.
Figure 2. Biodiesel production
process diagram (extracted from UPM Biofuels webpage)
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REFERENCIAS / REFERENCES:
2 www.upmbiofuels.com/biofuel-production/advanced-biofuel-production/Pages/Default.aspx.
