Project description
New generation of bio-based and more sustainable flame retardants for industrial applications
New sustainable solutions are essential for transitioning industries to meet green goals. Flame retardants are critical for several applications, for example in the construction and automotive industries. However, current options are effective but not sustainable. The EU-funded BIOSAFIRE project aims to provide an innovative, sustainable alternative by upgrading and unlocking the potential of lignins and tannins (natural flame retardants) for industrial applications. The project will expand and diversify available feedstocks in select pilot plants to produce bio-based flame retardants in powdered form. These will be demonstrated across five sectors, showcasing their competitive performance, safety, and sustainability.
Objective
BIOSAFIRE goes back to nature to upgrade lignins and tannins, nature’s flame retardants, and unlock them for industrial application of biosbased flame retardants. Starting from already existing pilot plants, BIOSAFIRE upscales and broadens the available feedstocks to provide flame retardant in powder formats for five applications in four different sectors: naval, railway, home appliances and wood coatings.
Featuring the same fire retardancy performance as chosen toxic benchmarks and enhancing safety and sustainability with an 80% of biobased content, BIOSAFIRE aspires to not only demonstrate its targets on 5 use cases, but also to create a material portfolio and a set of processing guidelines to enhance flame retardants substitution by the industry. This will open the possibility for biobased resins to exhibit good fire retardant properties. It will unlock a market opportunity worth USD 9.5 billion in 2028where Europe involves a 25% share and the sectors involved in the project 65% of the market share. BIOSAFIRE will design an industrial pilot plant to understand and overcome value chain barriers and create a robust techno economic assessment to promote the market uptake of the project results.
BIOSAFIRE is an opportunity to test the EU JRC SSbD framework. The project will use a tiered approach to run the framework iteratively and provide a decision support toolset, link SSbD principles to early conceptual design and ultimately provide a software tool based on HEU SUNRISE methodology. The integration of SSH in the project will allow an enhanced social acceptance, further boosted by the training materials developed during the project.
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44-100 Gliwice
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01730 VANTAA
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02150 Espoo
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36955 Moana
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61121 Pesaro
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4824 EH Breda
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38-480 RYMANOW
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47007 VALLADOLID
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501 15 Boras
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75018 Paris
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30121 VENEZIA
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1095 Nicosia
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80686 Munchen
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28027 Madrid
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7180 Seneffe
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34445 ISTANBUL
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6167 RD Geleen
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12051 Alba
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25191 LERIDA
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5212 Hausen
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