Mednarodni projekti
Scaled-up production of next-generation carbohydrate-derived building blocks to enhance the competitiveness of a sustainable European chemicals industry
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Povzetek
The key aim of BIONEER is to broaden the range of biobased building blocks and platform molecules by
demonstrating scaled-up synthesis of a range of novel molecules and polymers from lignocellulosic biomass.
BIONEER employs chemical and microbial production routes, with products suitable for application in the
coatings, packaging and personal care sectors, valorising all biomass fractions in a zero-waste approach.
The focus of BIONEER is on the utilisation of low-cost, sustainably sourced, lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock
to produce novel platform chemicals for the difficult to decarbonise industrial sectors, such as liquid plastics used in
personal care and coatings. The project moves beyond first-generation carbohydrate-derived chemicals, leveraging
the (biotechnology, biochemistry, and chemistry) expertise of the consortium to scale-up the production of a novel
range of monomeric and polymeric building blocks that allow for important additional functionalities to be conferred
to biobased chemicals.
BIONEER Building Blocks (BBB) made from sustainably sourced biomass using bio- and chemo-catalysis
approaches will replace toxic and non-environmentally friendly fossil-based building blocks. The targeted
fossil-based building blocks to be replaced are bisphenol A and its derivatives (for the UV curing coatings
market), alkyl acrylates, vinyl pyrrolidine, vinyl acetate, and siloxanes (hair care and skin care market).
