Revalorization of forest residues in nonwoven insulation materials

Forest residues consist of branches, leaves, needles, lops, tops, stumps with root system, damaged or un-merchantable stem wood, which tend to be utilized as fuel. Currently, a large amount of forest residues have been produced to wood chips in Sweden, which can be converted to heat energy in heating plants as well as pulp mills and potential developments in new industries. With the increase of interest in renewable and environment friendly materials, available forest residues can be employed to manufacture novel nonwovens that will be promising material can be utilized in technical sectors, such as construction, automotive etc.

The main objective is to explore that different technology for obtaining non-woven materials from forest residues. The non-woven materials will be used as composites reinforcement to obtain the final technical insulation products.

PhD student: Chao Zheng