Spbftu Innovation Centre

innovation centre, part of saint-petersburg forestry technical university (the oldest forestry university in europe, founded in 1803) is dedicated to consulting on sustainable technologies to produce pulp and paper products in an environmentally friendly way. this is done by construction small-scale pulp and paper mills which utilize over-matured deciduous wood and agricultural residues and improves forests consumption of carbon dioxide and oxygen production. current pulp and paper factories are giants with complex logistics and environmental impact that is hard to estimate. their transportation cost of raw materials is constantly increasing, and economic performance is falling. total cost of construction could be estimated in the billions of dollars. we propose to reduce the size of pulp and paper mills by using technology called extrusive chemi-thermomechanical pulp (ectmp). ectmp small-scale pulp mills are environmentally friendly (closed water circulation system is used with no c