Sustainable carbon flows

There is a large industrial demand for sustainable, circular carbon from diverse sources. Addressing this requires deeper insight into elemental carbon sources across different scales.

The overall goal of this area is to increase knowledge and accelerate the implementation of strategies for sustainable carbon. The area is implemented through three sub-areas; Circular, Biobased and Carbon Dioxide.

Circular:  Addresses the challenge of establishing value chains where materials from waste can circulate.
Bio-based: Focuses on implementing bio-based value chains that use residual streams originating from forestry or agriculture.
Carbon dioxide: Focuses on strategies for the capture, use and storage of biogenic and fossil carbon dioxide (CCUS).

Projects within Sustainable Carbon Flows - Biobased

From synthesis gas to crackable feedstock via Fischer Tropsch synthesis

The project aims to investigate the most promising production routes to produce streams of short olefins (ethylene, butene, propylene) from raw materials based on renewable carbon sources such as...

Sweden’s Carbon Balance – Current Status and Potential Future Developments

To achieve a sustainable and efficient carbon supply, it is essential to assess both the current status and potential future developments. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive data on Sweden’s...

From Field to Engine: Bio-Based and Biodegradable Lubricants and Hydraulic Oils

Modern agriculture relies heavily on machinery for fieldwork, forestry, and livestock management. This equipment requires substantial amounts of lubricants and hydraulic oils, which are typically...

Carbon efficient production of methane or methanol from forest biomass

Sustainable methane and methanol can both play a key role in the industrial and societal transition to a low-carbon economy, including their use as fuels, hydrogen carriers, or feedstocks in the...

AgRawGas

Western Sweden has a large agricultural sector with by-products such as husks and straw, which currently have a low utilization rate. This is Sweden's first project that takes existing technology...

Biogas and high-value feedstocks from agricultural residue streams in Region Västra Götaland

The project aims to strengthen the conditions for expanded production of biogas and high-value feedstocks for the West Coast's process industries through increased utilization of agricultural residue...

Mapping of raw material resources - forest raw material and other bio raw material - a meta analysis

In this project, existing knowledge from previous studies of the availability of bio-raw materials was compiled to highlight the conditions linked to the Climate-Leading Process Industry, with regard...

Chemicals from the sugar platform via direct chemical processes

The project aims to lower production costs and increase industrial maturity for the production of specialty chemicals. Specialty chemicals contribute to increasing the utilization rate in integrated...

Catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of lignin

The chemical companies in Stenungsund turn over large amounts of ethylene in their production each year (approx. 800 ktons). If the ethylene was produced in whole or in part from renewable raw...

Industrial adaptation of lignin value chains

The project aims to define optimal lab-scale conditions for slurry hydrotreating processes for direct upgrading of hydrolyzed lignin to hydrocarbon mixtures that can be integrated into a conventional...

Greener bioethylene via electrification

The project aims to evaluate whether the commercially available process alternatives for the production of ethylene from bioethanol can be adapted for a higher degree of electrification. This is an...

Preliminary study of possible target molecules from the sugar platform

This preliminary study meant the start of a project that will lead to the identification of selected industrially relevant target molecules that can be produced directly from the sugar platform, i.e...

Bioeten/Bio-olefins

Ethylene is the most important building block in the chemical cluster in Stenungsund and also within the chemical industry as a whole. Renewable ethylene is one of the most important steps in reaching...

End of Waste - From plastic waste to raw material

Plastic production from fossil sources leads to high carbon dioxide emissions, and increased use of recycled plastic reduces the need for new production. By recycling plastic that would otherwise go...

Evaluation of thermochemical recycling of disposable products from healthcare and sorted plastic-rich material streams from household waste

Due to their complexity, many polymer-rich waste streams have no clear recycling options, despite the fact that the input materials when the products were produced were of high quality and the...

Smart plastic loops

In the project Smarta loops, collections of relatively small but clean and well-defined plastic flows will be made. These flows have an identified receiver who wants to manufacture a product from the...

Mechanical recycling – Sorting and washing – Stages 1 and 2

In order to cope with the transition to a fossil-independent economy, increased circularity of materials is required. Within plastic recycling, several methods will be required to be able to increase...

Material circularity through recycling of PET/polyester in preparation for BHET monomer production in Sweden

Valuable plastic raw materials made of PET and polyester, such as old clothes and carpet trays, are today incinerated instead of being recycled. This project focused on the possibilities for material...

Conversion of gasification infrastructure at Perstorp to recycled raw material and biomass, a techno-economic mapping

Pyrolysis and gasification adapted to recycled raw materials and biomass are two key technologies for restructuring fossil-based industries within the West Swedish Chemical and Materials Cluster. This...

Complex polymer-rich material streams and their role in a circular material supply

Due to their complexity, many polymer-rich waste streams have no clear recycling option, despite the fact that the input materials in the production of the products that the waste consists of are of...

Mapping plastic waste streams

In order to understand the conditions for a return refinery, the supply of raw materials must be mapped and issues surrounding competition for raw materials must be elucidated. A mapping of possible...

Gasification of circular feedstocks in the chemical industry – Pilot Scale verification experiments

The project contributes to the transformation of the chemical industry by carrying out gasification experiments on a pilot scale for recycled raw materials that are of interest to Perstorp's facility...

In-depth analysis of plastic in household residual waste and its potential for increased material recycling and reduced climate impact

The purpose of the project is to provide an increased understanding of the climate impact of waste fractions in household residual waste. This is done by analyzing waste fractions containing plastic...

Magnus Andersson

RISE

Program Leader & Area Leader: Bio based

magnus.k.andersson@ri.se

+ 46 703 14 60 08

Hanna Paradis

Lindholmen Science Park

Program Leader and Area Leader: Circularity

hanna.paradis@lindholmen.se

+46 766 11 31 06

Johan Ahlström