The future of Canadian forest extractives for specialty chemicals: value identification

加拿大西部的软木富含萜烯等提取物，可用于满足全球对石油可持续替代品的需求。这些分子可用于化妆品、香精、香料和食品添加剂，或通过催化作用升级为新的高价值药物、除草剂和/或杀虫剂。此次与纳奈莫森林产品公司（NFP）的合作将鉴定和量化NFP原料生产的蒸汽冷凝物中所含的萃取物，以评估这些分子的商业价值。这个项目，价值识别，代表了NFP努力开发高价值产品以补充其当前业务的第一阶段。该项目的成功将导致第二阶段的过程模拟将用于确定分离技术，以恢复目标分子的商业供应。**NFP将提供由其纤维篮产生的蒸汽冷凝物。一套综合分析技术将用于鉴定和量化这些凝聚物中所含的萃取物。将评估已鉴定分子的现有应用和市场。生物质能解构和表征专家Trajano博士和她的团队将与NFP的生产经理Bart Howey合作。Howey致力于开发NFP的新商业机会，并将每月两次与UBC团队会面，审查项目结果。NFP的企业家领导很高兴将这项研究转化为不列颠哥伦比亚省制造的增值产品。这些产品将成为不容易被国际竞争对手取代的地区生产商的竞争优势。这项新的商业活动将为NFP的员工拥有的工厂创造大量新的就业机会，并使NFP能够继续支持当地社区的基础设施，如医院和学校。

Western Canada's softwoods are rich in extractives such as terpenes, which can be used to meet the global**demand for sustainable alternatives to petroleum. These molecules can be used for cosmetics, flavours,**fragrances, and food additives or upgraded via catalysis to new high-value drugs, herbicides and/or pesticides.**This collaboration with Nanaimo Forest Products (NFP) will identify and quantify extractives contained in**steam condensates produced from NFP's furnish in order to evaluate the commercial value of these molecules.**This project, Value Identification, represents the first phase of NFP's effort to develop high value products to**complement their current business. Success in this project will lead to a second phase in which process**simulations will be used to identify separation technology to recover target molecules for commercial offering.**NFP will provide steam condensates generated from their fibre basket. A suite of integrated analytical**techniques will be used to identify and quantify the extractives contained in these condensates. Existing**applications and markets for the identified molecules will be assessed. Dr. Trajano, biomass deconstruction**and characterization specialist, and her team will collaborate with NFP's Production Manager, Bart Howey.**Mr. Howey is committed to developing NFP's new business opportunities and will meet with the UBC team**twice a month to review project results. The entrepreneurial leadership of NFP is excited to translate this**research into value-adding products manufactured in British Columbia. These products will be a competitive**advantage for regional producers that cannot easily be displaced by international rivals. This new commercial**activity will create significant new job opportunities at NFP's employee owned facility and enable NFP's**continued support of local community infrastructure such as hospitals and schools.