Programme 15/11 – Day 1
The conference is organized at:
Elite Plaza Hotel
Hotellgatan 9
891 33 Örnsköldsvik
9.00 – 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.10 Welcome Karin Johnson (RISE Processum), Anna Svedberg (Domsjö Fabriker), Gunnar Henriksson (KAU), Leif Jönsson (UmU)
10.10-11.00 Keynote: Scaling up the world’s first 100% textile-to-textile recycled cellulose fiber – Kristina Elg Christoffersson (Renewcell)
11.00 – 12.30 Cellulose structures and composites I. Chair: Björn Sjöstrand (KaU)
11.00 – 11.30 Interpreting SAXS data recorded on cellulose-rich pulps, Tomas Larsson (RISE)
11.30-12.00 Molecular mechanisms behind aging of cellulosic materials, Farhiya Alex Sellman (KTH)
12.00-12.30 Formation of cellulose particles and their application, Kay Hettrich (Fraunhofer)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 Nanocellulose. Chair: Leif Jönsson (UmU)
13.30 – 14.00 CASSPAK – 100% Cellulose Foams for Sustainable Packaging, Gary Cass (Cass Materials AB)
14.00 – 14.30 Synthesis of cationized cellulose by deep eutectic solvent for application as a papermaking wet-end additive, Mozhgan Hashemzehi (KaU)
14.30-15.00 Amphiphilic cellulose nanofibers through ring-opening esterification in Deep Eutectic Solvent, Umair Qasim (Oulu University)
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee
15.15 – 17.15 Cellulose structures and composites II. Chair: Tomas Larsson (RISE)
15.15 – 15.45 Water as an intrinsic structural element in cellulose fibril aggregates, Jakob Wohlert (KTH)
15.45 – 16.15 Sheet steeping as a protocol for chemical modification of oriented wood fibres, Diana Reyes Forsberg and Per-Oskar Westin (MoRe research)
16.15 – 16.45 WATER REPELLANT CELLULOSE-BASED LOW-DENSITY FOAMS: Preparation, Characterization and Sustainability, Sara Wallsten (MoRe research)
16:45 End of day 1
18.30 Dinner at Statt
16/11 – Day 2
8.20 – 9.10 Keynote: Innovative, scalable and eco-friendly modification of cellulose – Armando Cordova (MiUn)
9.10 – 10.40 Cellulose derivatives: Chair: Ola Sundman (UmU)
9.10 – 9.40 Interactions Between Cellulose Acetate and Xylan Acetate During Acetylation, Sunkyu Park (North Carolina State University
9.40 – 10.10 Cellulose oxalate in novel applications, Monika Ek (KTH)
10.10 – 10.40 Surface modified nanocellulose, Gunnar Westman (Chalmers)
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Dissolution of cellulose and spinning of fibres Chair: Jakob Wohlert (KTH)
11.00 – 11.30 High consistency cellulose treatment in DES, Marianna Vehviläinen (VTT)
11.30 – 12.00 Spinning of lignin-cellulose solutions for carbon fiber applications, Jenny Bengtsson (RISE)
12.00 – 12.30 Cotton waste as an alternative raw material for the Lyocell spinning process, Henk Gojjer (Saxcell)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13:30-13:40 Presentation of RISE bioeconomy arena, David Blomberg Saitton, RISE.
13.40 – 13.55 End of the workshop (Anna Svedberg, Domsjö Fabriker) and transfer to the buses for the study visits.
14.00 – 15.30 Study visits at Domsjö Fabriker, RISE Processum/MoRe Research and Nouryon
15.45 Bus back to Örnsköldsvik
Abbreviations: UmU = Umeå University, KaU = Karlstad University, KTH = Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology), RISE = Research Institutes of Sweden, VTT = Technical Research Centre of Finland, MiUn = Mid Sweden Universit