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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    

Ques9ons?  

Susan  Wood-­‐Bohm,  PhD,  Execu5ve  Director    Susan.wood-­‐[email protected]  613-­‐920-­‐0516