Objective NILE is a 4-year integrated project addressing the topic "New and advanced concepts in renewable energies - Biomass". Its overall objective is to develop cost effective production of clean bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass (LCB), enabling its use as a transport biofuel. NILE will develop, investigate and evaluate new technologies for efficient conversion of lignocellulose to bioethanol. These technologies will be verified using a unique and fully integrated pilot plant providing reliable data for glob al socio-economic and environmental assessments and for the design of a future demonstration unit. The activities of NILE aim at overcoming critical hurdles in process development. Key issues are: - decreasing the cost of enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocell ulose to fermentable sugars using new engineered enzyme systems; - removing current intrinsic limitations in the conversion of fermentable sugars to ethanol by i) constructing inhibitor-tolerant pentose-fermenting industrial yeast strains, and ii) combinin g fermentation and saccharification; validating the engineered enzyme systems and yeast strains in a fully integrated pilot plant using softwood and wheat straw as model feedstock. Validation includes all process steps and recycling of process streams; - analysing socio-economic and global environmental impacts of the production and use of bioethanol from LCB based on the new data obtained; - dissemination and training of target groups. The project mobilizes the critical mass of end-users and world-leadi ng expertise necessary to improve the whole bioethanol from LCB chain. By its integrated structure, NILE supports the development of research activities in close connection with industrial processes, their validation, their technical and socio-economic ass essments, their dissemination as well as training activities. This development ensures a real industrial and societal impact of the developed technology thus strengthening European competitiveness. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsliquid fuelsnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcoholsengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuelsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsenzymesengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentation Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-1.2.5 - New and advanced concepts in renewable energy technologies - Biomass Call for proposal FP6-2004-ENERGY-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme IP - Integrated Project Coordinator IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLLES EU contribution No data Address 1-4 avenue de Bois-Preau RUEIL-MALMAISON France See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (21) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ENI S.P.A. 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