Prospects for bioenergy with carbon capture & storage (BECCS) in the United States pulp and paper industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 2243-2261 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Sagues ◽  
H. Jameel ◽  
D. L. Sanchez ◽  
S. Park
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Pulp And Paper Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Suitable Candidate ◽  
The Us ◽  
Carbon Capture Storage

The pulp and paper industry is a suitable candidate to lead the deployment of BECCS in the US.

Comparison of cooking technologies for production of softwood kraftliner pulp

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
STEFAN ANTONSSON ◽  
ANDERS HJORT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Energy Absorption ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Pulp And Paper Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Kappa Number ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Corrugated Board ◽  
Increased Strength

Kraftliner, used as the top and bottom layers in corrugated board, is one of the major paper products in the United States and worldwide and is a long-term growth business area for the pulp and paper industry. However, for many years pulping development for kraftliner has been limited. The lack of development may be because corrugated board standards in many countries have specified basis weight and not strength demands on the corrugated board. With the modifications of Item 222/Rule 41, the situation in the United States has changed. Recently, a new cooking technology has been developed enabling defibration of softwood pulps at considerably higher kappa number with low reject content. Pulp quality as a function of kappa number has been evaluated for this new cooking technology compared to pulp produced using a conventional kraftliner cooking technology. Lower H-factor demands and increased strength, measured as tensile energy absorption, were the most important differences found between the two cooking systems in this study.

Measuring the competitiveness of Canadian pulp and paper in the US market reveals needs for more research

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 2951-2964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Tang ◽  
Shashi Kant ◽  
Susanna Laaksonen-Craig ◽  
Emmanuel R. Asinas
Keyword(s):  
Paper Industry ◽  
Pulp And Paper Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Market ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Elasticity Of Substitution ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
The Us ◽  
Declining Demand

This paper studies substitution between main categories of imported pulp and paper products and between imported and domestic pulp and paper products in the US market. A restricted translog subcost function approach was employed to derive the elasticity of substitution. The results suggest that Canadian pulp and paper products are competitive and have maintained their competitiveness in the US market, and therefore, the challenges faced by the Canadian pulp and paper industry are not because of the loss of its product competitiveness but are due to other reasons such as declining demand for paper products in the United States. It seems that if the Canadian pulp and paper industry wants to retain its dominant position in the world market place, it will have to create global reach and develop new markets.

scholarly journals Further Examination of the Market Valuation of Environmental Capital Expenditures by Pulp and Paper Companies

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Perry Warren Solheim
Keyword(s):  
Paper Industry ◽  
Pulp And Paper Industry ◽  
Optimal Choice ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Capital Expenditures ◽  
Market Values ◽  
The Us ◽  
Best Available Technology ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
Environmental Capital

In this study I use the US pulp and paper industry to explore the equity market’s valuation of environmental capital expenditures. I replicate and extend a study by Clarkson, Li, and Richardson that bifurcates the industry into high and low polluting groups. As with their study, I find evidence indicating that the market values environmental capital expenditures by over-compliant firms while attaching no such value to the same expenditures by minimally compliant firms. I do not find that the market assesses unrecorded liabilities to firms that are minimally compliant. My extension also seeks to address two possible specification issues in the Clarkson, et. Al. approach.  The first, levels model they used is unbiased but inefficient.  Their model scaled by common shares outstanding attempts to rectify this inefficiency but may not be the optimal choice of scaling variable. My results suggest that a “Best Available Technology” approach to environmental regulation may carry additional incentives provided by the capital markets.

Environmental Protection in the United States Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Industry: An Overview of Regulation of Wastewater Under the U.S. Clean Water Act

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca W. Hanmer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Clean Water Act ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Pulp Paper

The pulp, paper, and paperboard industry in the United States is the larqest industrial user of water with half of the facilities discharging wastewater directly to our Nation's waters. The major pollutants of concern have historically been the conventional pollutants: biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), total suspended solids (TSS), and pH. Biological treatment systems are currently employed to reduce these pollutants. Sludges generated by these treatment systems have been categorized as nonhazardous and are generally landfilled. Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has promulgated all the reguired regulations for this industry. The national regulations are applied to individual pulp and paper mills through permits issued by EPA Regional or State staff. Permit limits can be written that are more restrictive than the national regulations to protect local water guality. In its current projects concerning the pulp and paper industry, EPA is focusing on the reduction of toxic pollutants. The Agency is conducting a joint EPA/industry program to study dioxin discharges at bleached kraft mills. The Agency will also undertake a comprehensive review of the pulp and paper regulations in 1988.

scholarly journals Large-Scale Implementation of Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage in the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry Involving Biomass Supply at the Regional Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Karlsson ◽  
Anders Eriksson ◽  
Fredrik Normann ◽  
Filip Johnsson
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Pulp And Paper Industry ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Capture Process ◽  
Logging Residues ◽  
Biomass Supply ◽  
Heat Demand ◽  
Negative Emissions

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has been identified as a possible major contributor to efforts to reach ambitious climate targets through the provision of negative emissions–offsetting residual fossil emissions in “hard-to-abate” sectors and accomplishing net-negative emissions. The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer of biomass in Sweden, with many large point sources of biogenic CO2 emissions that could be captured. This work investigates the biomass supply required for large-scale implementation of BECCS in the pulp and paper industry. Logging residues are considered as a fuel to supply the additional energy demand imposed by the capture plant, and the potential of these residues is evaluated in a case study that includes four pulp and paper mills located in regions of Sweden with different conditions for biomass supply. Two of the mills are located in southern Sweden, where there is strong competition for logging residues from the heating sector, and two of the mills are located in northern Sweden, where the competition is weaker. We show that implementing carbon capture at the four pulp and paper mills using regional logging residues to supply the additional heat demand required by the capture process (the reboiler heat demand) has the potential to capture around 4.6 Mt CO2/year. The results also show that the fuel share of the capture cost, i.e., the cost to supply the reboiler heat demand with regional logging residues, is 22–30 €/tCO2 captured, where the lower value corresponds to regions with weaker competition for logging residues (in this study, northern Sweden). In regions that have competition for logging residues, the possibility to increase the regional supply of logging residues to fuel the capture process while maintaining mill production output is limited, which in turn limits the possibilities to generate negative emissions via BECCS. In contrast, in regions with a low level of competition and strong availability of logging residues, there is an additional potential for logging residues to cover the additional heat demand required for CCS implementation.

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