Biorefinery:A New Revolution in Green Energy

Biorefinery,as a brand-new research area has gained much attention all over the world.A biorefinery is a facility that integrates biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels,power,and chemicals from biomass.Biorefinery concept is built on two platforms:sugar platformandsyngas platform,and is regarded as the most potential bio-industry.The pulp and paper industry which has the infrastructure and experience in managing and processing large amount of biomass is in a unique position to be evolved into Integrated Forest Biorefinery(IFBR)that produces high value-added products such as ethanol,polymers,special chemicals,in addition to the traditional pulp and paper products.This paper reviewed current state of research in biorefinery,especial on the development of the key technologies in lignocellulosic ethanol.Some practical models of pulp and paper integrated biorefinery were discussed.The paper also introduced our current biorefinery project in cooperation with AV Nackawic,FPInnovations-Paprican and NBCC.