Upm-kymmene Corporation

Upm-kymmene Oyj Corporation

Petri Kukkonen

Pekka Knuuttila

Pekka Jokela

Jaakko Nousiainen

Teemu Lindberg

Jari Kotoneva

Timo Äijälä

Ulf Hotanen

Timo Aijala

The invention relates to the use of biomethanol from the pulp industry in the production of biohydrogen. The preferred biomethanol comprises purified biomethanol derived from black liquor. The invention also relates to a process for the production of biohydrogen from crude biomethanol recovered from black liquor and to a process for producing hydrocarbon biofuel using such biohydrogen as a hydrogen source. The invention further relates to a biofuel production facility for producing fuel from biohydrogen and biohydrocarbon, and to biofuel so produced. The invention makes it possible to produce a biofuel, wherein 100% of the raw material stems from non-fossil sources.

Use of methanol in the production of hydrogen and fuel, processes and plants for the production of hydrogen and fuel

The present invention relates to a process for producing hydrocarbons, wherein the process comprises the steps of, subjecting a feedstock comprising CTO and TOP to pretreatment comprising at least two evaporative steps to yield (i) an evaporated feedstock comprising 30 ppm or less of sodium, 35 ppm or less of phosphorus and 30 ppm or less of silicon, (ii) a light fraction and (iii) a residue fraction, and subjecting the evaporated feedstock to catalytic hydroprocessing in the presence of hydrogen to yield a hydroprocessing product comprising hydrocarbons boiling in the liquid fuel range. The invention also relates to hydrocarbon components useful as transportation fuel or as a blending component in transportation fuel, obtainable by said process.

Process for producing hydrocarbons from crude tall oil and tall oil pitch

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing liquid hydro carbonaceous product () such as biofuel from solid biomass (). The method comprises a gasifying step for gasifying solid biomass () in a gasifier () to produce raw synthesis gas (), conditioning of the raw synthesis gas () to purify the raw synthesis gas () to obtain purified synthesis gas () having a molar ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide between 2.5 to 1 and 0.5 to 1, preferably to between 2.1 to 1 and 1.8 to 1, more preferably about 2 to 1, and subjecting purified synthesis gas () to a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor () to produce liquid hydro carbonaceous product ().

Method and apparatus for producing liquid biofuel from solid biomass

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing synthesis gas () from biomass (). The method comprises a step for producing raw product gas (), and a purifying step comprising several processing steps performed in gas processing means () for converting the raw product gas () to synthesis gas (). One processing step is a carbon dioxide removal step for separating carbon dioxide from the stream of raw product gas () in a gas processing means comprising a gas purificator (). The method comprises a step for feeding a stream of the carbon dioxide () from the gas purificator () to at least one part of the apparatus, said at least one part of the apparatus being selected from: the biomass supply system (), the gasifier () and at least one of the gas processing means ().

Method and apparatus for producing synthesis gas from biomass

A method for preparing fuel components from crude tall oil. Feedstock containing tall oil including unsaturated fatty acids is introduced to a catalytic hydrodeoxygenation to convert unsaturated fatty acids, rosin acids and sterols to fuel components. Crude tall oil is purified in a purification by washing the crude tall oil with washing liquid and separating the purified crude tall oil from the washing liquid. The purified crude tall oil is introduced directly to the catalytic hydrodeoxygenation as a purified crude tall oil feedstock. An additional feedstock may be supplied to the catalytic hydrodeoxygenation.

Method and apparatus for preparing fuel components from crude tall oil

Treatment of waste water from a biomass-to-liquid process, said process comprising producing synthesis gas from biomass and conversion of said synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbons by a Fisher-Tropsch process. The waste waters obtained are purified in common with waste waters from another industrial process to which said biomass-to-liquid process is integrated, such as in forestry, power and/or heat generation, waste incineration or a process in a metal-, petrochemical and/or oil refining industry. The biomass-to-liquid. process and said another industrial process may have a common feed water process unit, a common cooling water process unit and a common waste water treatment unit. The waste water treatment process may comprise a biological purification process and said Fischer-Tropsch process may utilize a cobalt catalyst. An integrated factory comprising a biomass-to-liquid plant and another industrial facility in which both plants are connected to a common waste water treatment facility is also described.

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Helsinki, Finland

Petri Kukkonen