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TomorrowNow: Manitoba’s Green Plan “An Alberta Perspec9ve”
Susan Wood-‐Bohm, PhD, Execu5ve Director, Biological GHG Management Program Alberta Innovates Bio Solu5ons December 3, 2013
Ini9a9ves to Drive Innova9on Funding for Research Policy Tools Challenges and Barriers
Alberta Innovates System Map
Innovates Centre
of Research
Excellence
iCORE ARCApplied Research Centres
BISBusiness InnovationServices
Post Secondary Institutions and Other Researcher Performers
Enterprise and Advanced Education
(The Connector Service)
Research & Innovation Organizations
ICT, Nanotechnology, Omics & Engineering Commercialization
Service Providers
$79 Million Grant
$22 Million Grant
$17 Million Grant
$29 Million Grant
Alberta EnterpriseCorporation
$17 Million Grant $76 M Fee-for-service
$52 Million
GOA Ministries
$174 Million Total
$65 Million Grant
Businesses & Communi9es
S. Lougheed Working Draft – January 2013
The BIOE Ini5a5ve The power of the bioeconomy will have a broad impact on many of Alberta’s strategic priori5es and challenges. To flourish, the bioeconomy will include value-‐added products and processes for: • the agriculture and forest industries, • the innova5on and commercializa5on of bioenergy
technologies, • advanced biomaterials and biochemicals, • the value-‐genera5ng poten5al of environmental systems and
sustainable resource development.
From the Current State Assessment of the BIOE Ini5a5ve
Some of the increasingly important technologies that may grow in Alberta include:
– fibre conversion technologies – the development of nanocrystalline cellulose – other high-‐value-‐added biomaterials – industrial biorefining – microbial engineering for enhanced oil recovery – bioremedia5on of oilsands tailing ponds – water management & purifica5on
How much biomass do we have to work with? the problem with biomass inventory…..
BiOS spreadsheet • BiOS
Biomass Opportunity
Supply model
Bioconversions Network The Biorefining Conversions Network (BCN), a research network based
out of the University of Alberta, is focused on aligning local and global research communi9es in the area of biorefining conversion technologies.
Alberta Biomaterial Development Centre -‐ ABDC
• ABDC is a newly formed provincial ini9a9ve with the mandate to establish Alberta as an innova9on and commercializa9on leader in the growing field of agriculture and forestry based biomaterials.
Na9onal Ins9tute for Nanotechnology
• The $170m Na9onal Ins9tute for Nanotechnology (NINT) is located at the University of Alberta. • The Government of Alberta has announced a $130m Nanotechnology Strategy which includes a focus on agriculture and forestry.
Focus ac5ons around four key strategies:
1. Clusters-‐Building biorefineries and integrated lignocellulose industrial clusters
2. Build on exis9ng strength -‐Transforming and sustaining the current lignocellulose-‐based industries
3. Communi9es -‐ Sustaining and enhancing forest and agriculture based communi5es
4. New companies -‐ Growing biocomposite, biomaterial and bioproduct companies
Alberta Forest Products Roadmap (2010-‐11)
Includes all sectors of the forest industry Led by AESRD
• explore challenges, the strengths and weaknesses of the sector
• opportuni5es ahead -‐ global markets and developments – wood products, pulp and paper, bioindustrial products and bioenergy
• The Roadmap’s development over the past two years has been focused on enhancing the contribu5ons and compe55veness of Alberta’s forest products sector.
Policies to Support Bioeconomy Development
1. AESRD – Environment and Sustainable Resource
Development
2. Alberta Energy
3. AARD – Agriculture and Rural Development
4. CCEMC – Climate Change and Emissions Management
Corpora5on
5. AEAE – Enterprise and Advanced Educa5on
Some5mes we are not sure how to use new technology
Alberta Successes • Highmark – Feedlot -‐> Biogas -‐> 2MW
• Permolex – Wheat+gluten+flour -‐> ethanol
• Lethbridge biogas – 2.5 to 4.0 MW
• Kyoto Fuels – Bio-‐diesel – 66 MM liters/year
• Camrose Bioenergy – Fast growing Willow into CHP
• Strathcona Community Energy -‐ CHP
• Olds College – Pilot scale 250 K liters/year Bio-‐diesel
• Enerkem – 100,000 MSW tons -‐> Gasifica9on -‐> 38 million Liters
• TTS – Bio-‐composites (car parts from biomass)
• Synermulch – Flax straw and canola oil to make mats that prevent erosion
• Borealis – plant extracts for cosme9c industry
• Radient Technologies – Extrac9on/purifica9on using microwave assisted technology
• Ceapro – ID unique plants to produce highest value natural ingredients
