From wood chips to aircraft in Småland. The aviation biofuel market is currently underdeveloped. To increase the supply of sustainable aviation fuel, KLM, Södra, Växjö Municipality, SkyNRG, Småland Airport, Fores and Luleå University of Technology have signed a statement of intent to study the feasibility of aviation biofuel production in Småland. The Swedish Energy Agency has approved the consortium’s application for the feasibility study.
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A transition of the transport sector will require both new solutions and a changed market. As part of the process to achieve fossil-free transportation by 2030, Södra is now earmarking an investment of SEK 20 million for the additional costs arising from the choice of new and sustainable transport solutions.
Challenge
The transition from fossil fuels often involves additional costs.
Solution
We are investing SEK 20 million to stimulate demand for fossil-free products.
Effect
Södra’s port in Mönsterås was already totally fossil free by autumn 2017. All of the port’s vehicles and cranes are now powered by HVO.
Challenge
Large machinery involved in heavy and high lifting that need a lot of power.
Solution
All of the port’s vehicles and cranes are now powered by HVO diesel.
Effect
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Switch to HVO in our own machines to show that it works.
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Silva Green Fuel AS is 49-percent owned by Södra, and 51-percent by Norwegian Statkraft. The company’s mission is to identify a cost-efficient technology for profitable large-scale production of second-generation liquid biofuels using forest biomass.
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Solution
We are building a demo facility in collaboration with Norwegian Statkraft to develop a new method.
Effect
Increase the supply of liquid biofuel in the market.
Challenge
Not enough liquid biofuel, and no production-ready technical solution for advanced liquid biofuels.
Solution
Collaboration with Preem, Sveaskog and the inventor Lars Stigsson in a joint venture.
Effect
The mission of SunPine AB (which is 25-percent owned by Södra) is to use woody biomass from sustainably managed Swedish forests to extract products that enable the transition to a green economy. Tall diesel, rosin and bio-oil are extracted from crude tall oil. Tall diesel is a residual product from Södra’s pulp mills, and is an energy-efficient liquid biofuel with low CO₂ emissions.
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Develop a purification method to produce methanol for chemical use.
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Feasibility study with shipping companies, engine manufacturers and the Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL) into how we can achieve the most sustainable vessels in the Baltic Sea.
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Long-distance truck transportation through Europe.
Solution
Shift the volumes shipped by trucks to an intermodal solution, meaning a combination of rail-road transport, based on collaboration across the entire chain – from purchasing to logistics and market.
Effect
Lower CO₂ emissions due to more efficient rail transport, but also higher delivery precision and cost savings.
Challenge
Optimise the transportation of pulp.
Solution
In partnership with Kiruna Wagon, Södra Cell Värö has developed a new rail wagon that will eventually replace the wagons that are currently used to transport paper pulp from Värö to the Port of Varberg.
The new wagons have a load length of 20 metres, which is almost twice the length of the current wagons. The whole side can be opened for maximum accessibility and safe loading/unloading.
Effect
The new rail wagons will increase our freight capacity by 25 percent for the same train length, and reduce the need for transport by truck.
Challenge
You should be able to live wherever you like but still travel to work sustainably. Using public transport to reach our facilities is difficult because they are not located in major cities and means that EVs are not always suitable for employees with long commutes. Using electricity for business travel between our units is also difficult.
Solution
More than 50 charging poles have been installed across our operations, with a total of 112 charging points. This investment in charging poles is unique because Södra’s excess generation is used to charge the vehicles. Green electricity generated locally in our pulp mills. The initiative was made by possible by Klimatklivet (financial support from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency). Klimatklivet is a government policy initiative for climate-smart investments at local level.
Effect
Made business travel between our facilities with EVs possible, thereby increasing opportunities for fossil-free travel.
Challenge
The forest industry currently accounts for about 25 percent of truck transportation in Sweden. Innovation diversity is required to make this transportation fossil-free, and electrification is a vital component.
Solution
Eight organisations (including Södra) have started a joint research project led by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). The project revolves around pods – electric and self-driving trucks developed by Einride, which is an award-winning Swedish start-up specialised in sustainable road freight vehicles.
Another research project, Accelerated transition to fossil-free transportation in the forestry sector, is focused on speeding up innovations to achieve carbon-neutral transportation by 2045. The project will propose new systems and technology combinations that need to be tested in concrete demo projects.
Effect
The research project will lead to conclusions about the technology combinations that can help to accelerate innovation and the forest industry’s transition. The main focus will be to analyse their feasibility and develop a basis for possible demo projects, thereby accelerating the transition to fossil-free transportation.
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Would you also like to be part of the fossil-free transition and do you have any questions or ideas for more solutions?
Contact Henrik Brodin, +46 (0)470-85624.
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