Biomass from wood waste can be a key element to lower carbon-intensive industries’ emissions, such as metallurgy, whilst transit to more CO2-neutral systems.
As we wish to assist companies in sourcing biomass, Renewi partnered with AcelorMittal, TorrCoal, Chalmers University, Joanneum Research and the University of Graz in the European project TORero. This partnership aims to create a cost-, resource-, and energy-efficient concept for producing bioethanol via the torrefaction of local waste wood, and it’s fully integrated into a large-scale, industrially functional steel mill. Torrefaction, from which the name TORrero, produces biocoal by heating up wood and agro-residuals waste in the absence of oxygen.
Biocoal represents a greener solution to fossil powdered coal. Every steel mill using this system can produce 80 million litres of bioethanol per year to power road transport, mitigating its CO2 emissions in the short term. Renewi’s role in this project is to supply 30,000 tonnes of waste wood for the industrial performance tests planned at the reactor under construction.
We’re focusing on complying with the BREF and the strategic plan for Flanders to recycle more wood or find the greenest solution possible when recycling is difficult. The use of biomass, like biocoal derived from waste wood, is of great help to advance the circular ambitions of European governments and companies.
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