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Bio-based surfactants from renewable waste streams for the circular economy

Projektbeschreibung

Umstieg auf nachhaltige Tenside

Die Welt braucht sauberere, grünere und nachhaltigere Lösungen in Wirtschaft und Produktion. Diese „zukunftstauglichen“ Lösungen müssen jedoch auch wettbewerbsfähig sein. Tenside – der Hauptbestandteil von Waschmitteln – sind in einer Vielzahl von Industriezweigen allgegenwärtig. Von Reinigungs- und Körperpflegeprodukten bis hin zu Agrarchemikalien und Arzneimitteln kommen jährlich 17 Millionen Tonnen auf den Markt. Eine Alternative wird benötigt, und zu diesem Zweck müssen neue Technologien entwickelt werden. Im Rahmen des vorangegangenen Projekts PoC PURE wurden neuartige umweltfreundliche Tenside durch ökologische und skalierbare Synthesewege gewonnen, woraus zwei Patentanmeldungen hervorgingen. Darauf aufbauend wird das EU-finanzierte Projekt PureSurf bahnbrechende Produktionskonzepte entwickeln, um innovative hochleistungsfähige biobasierte Tenside aus ungenutzten erneuerbaren Abfallströmen herzustellen.

Ziel

With climate and environmental concerns topping the global agenda, industries across all sectors are under tremendous pressure to rapidly change their existing fossil-based practices by shifting toward cleaner, greener, more sustainable (in one word: future fit) solutions in business and production, while maintaining economic competitiveness internationally.
Surfactants (17 million t/year market globally) are omnipresent in key industrial segments (detergents, personal care, coatings, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals) and companies are actively looking to shift toward bio-based alternatives while maintaining product performance. Surprisingly, the valorization of renewable waste streams occurring in large quantities for making novel surfactants has not been adequately exploited so far. The reason for this is the lack of fundamentally new technologies in this area.
With the credo: Superior performance and clean conscience, PureSurf introduces ground-breaking manufacturing concepts to produce novel high-performance bio-based surfactants from currently underutilized renewable waste streams. In ERC PoC PURE project, novel green surfactants were obtained by green and scalable synthetic pathways, resulting in 2 patent applications. Building on this, the PureSurf validation activities will include:
- Upscale at least one gemini anionic and one zwitterionic surfactant structures to 1 kg to validate their properties, using clean starting materials
- Upscale (to 5 kg, TRL5-6) at least one selected example using industrial waste streams
- Determine properties, ecotoxicity, biodegradability (also anaerobic) as well as performance in industrial applications
- Critically compare to existing surfactants, establish a business case and prepare an investor ready technology.
The PureSurf team, consisting of leading experts in green chemistry, engineering and business with strong industrial network, aims to establish a spin-off company and become frontrunner in bio-based surfactants.

Finanzierungsplan

EIC - EIC

Koordinator

UNIVERSITAET GRAZ
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 2 475 998,00
Adresse
UNIVERSITATSPLATZ 3
8010 Graz
Österreich

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Region
Südösterreich Steiermark Graz
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Gesamtkosten
€ 2 475 998,75