Optimized Utilisation of Salix - OPTUS
In this large collaborative project, we study alternative uses of Salix wood as raw material in production of biofuels and novel bio-chemicals.
SLU calculates and reports emissions and uptake from Sweden's Land use, Land Use Change and Forestry sector (LULUCF).
In this large collaborative project, we study alternative uses of Salix wood as raw material in production of biofuels and novel bio-chemicals.
Spara
Shrinking natural resources on Earth and increasing environmental pollution makes it necessary to replace the current economy's linear flow of non-renewable fossil-based fuels and chemicals to waste with a circular and sustainable utilisation of our limited resources.
In a bio-based economy, residues that are currently seen as costly environmental problems are valuable raw materials in new bio-refineries. In our five different sub-project we are examining all aspects of sustainable production of high value chemicals and biofuels from Salix biomass. Read more about them below.
Project coordinator for OPTUS:
Ann-Christin Rönnberg Wästljung
Associate Professor in Genetics and Plant breeding
E-mail: anki.wastljung@slu.se
Telephone: +46 (0) 18 673316
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