Pyrocell holds the groundbreaking ceremony marking construction start of Sweden's first biofuels pyrolysis plant


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Pyrocell AB has held a groundbreaking ceremony marking construction start of Sweden's first pyrolysis plant to convert sawmill residues into a biocrude for advanced biofuels production.
Related posts:
- “Fast pyrolysis plants”, 17/7/2019.

Figure 1. Low-key groundbreaking ceremony held on March 23, 2020 (courtesy of Setra Group). Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the event was officiated by a handful of people: Katarina Levin (CEO at Setra Group), Pontus Friberg (Chairman of the Board of Pyrocell) and Jonas Jadling (Plant manager of Setra Kastet Sawmill).

Setra (wood products company) and Preem (fuel company) are teaming up to produce pyrolysis oil from sawdust. The jointly owned company Pyrocell will manufacture raw material for the production of biofuels in a plant alongside Setra’s Kastet sawmill in Gävle. Pyrocell selected the Dutch companies TechnipFMC and BTG BioLiquids (BTG-BTL) to design and build the plant. Scheduled to begin production at late 2021, the biorefinery will convert roughly 35,000 – 40,000 tons of dry wood residues into around 25,000 tonnes of bio-oil each year using proprietary fast pyrolysis technology developed by BTG-BTL.

Pyrocell is an important link in the value chain for renewable fuel. Setra has the raw material (sawdust) while Preem has refineries and fuel stations. The sawdust will be processed into a renewable raw material for biofuels at Pyrocell’s pyrolysis plant, ready for further processing at Preem’s refinery in Lysekil.

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