Overview of Value Streams

The BC Bioenergy Network will focus its collaboration with stakeholders into three categories comprised of a total of eight value-streams:

Forest Sector

1. Solid wood residues
   This stream deals with by-products from solid wood processing.
2. Pulp and paper residues
   This stream deals with by-products from the pulping process including waste treatment systems.
3. Harvesting and densification
   This stream deals with the transformation of biomass and its densification as fuel inputs for a variety of energy processing systems, thermochemical, biochemical or combustion.

Municipal Sector

1. Existing Municipal Landfill
   This stream deals with the collection and utilization of landfill gases.
2. Municipal wastewater
   This stream deals with municipal wastewater treatment systems.
3. Municipal solid waste
   This stream deals with the utilization of waste, organic and non-organic fractions, to energy.
4. Heat and power systems
   This stream deals with the utilization of any variety of biomass sources for the production of energy in the form of heating, electricity generation, gas generation and CO2 utilization for greenhouses.

Agriculture Sector

1. Agriculture residues
   This steam deals with agricultural animal wastes, crops, and other agricultural residues.

These value streams represent biomass inputs to which more than one conversion technology may apply; such as biochemical or thermochemical conversion, anaerobic digestion, aerobic decomposition, combustion, and densification.

Stakeholders will include the primary users or beneficiaries of the projects and may include others in industry, academia, research, government and non-government organizations. Preference will be given to those projects which share economic and environmental information for the benefit of all BC stakeholders. It is anticipated in the vast majority of cases, the proponent’s intellectual property and sensitive commercial confidential information will remain with the proponent.

The BC Bioenergy Network intends to develop Collaborative Development and Demonstration Centres (“CDDC’s”) within each of these streams. These centres will be used to pilot and demonstrate technologies which can be replicated across the province. In most cases, these centres will involve a proponent, or owner of the project, who agrees to collaborate with a number of stakeholders interested in observing or participating in a collaborative project on a formal basis.