Objective The EU target to increase the use of renewable energy carriers in the transportation sector in the coming years has already started to boost the production of biodiesel from rapeseed and other vegetable oils. This is leading to an immense increase in the production of glycerol, which is an unavoidable by-product from the esterification process. Since the volume of the glycerol-byproduct has already started to exceed the current market need, the biodiesel producers are requesting new methods for sustainable glycerol management. The GLYFINERY project is targeted to development of a novel technology based on biological conversion of the glycerol by-product into known and new, advanced liquid biofuels, bioenergy and valuable biochemicals in an integrated biorefinery concept. Implementation of the glycerol bioprocessing line into the biodiesel plant will improve the economics of the biodiesel biorefinery by enhanced energy conversion efficiency of the traditional raw materials and by generating valuable, highly demanded bioproducts. The GLYFINERY project will achieve the aim of the highly efficient process scheme through a multidirectional effort using new biocatalysts tailored by genetic modification for specific conversion routes, highly efficient fermentation processes for maximum possible conversion of glycerol into the target products, highly efficient methods for product recovery and the overall process integration. The individual processes are proposed to be studied in the lab-scale, and the most promising process scheme will be tested in the pilot-scale as an integrated concept for demonstration of the suitability of the GLYFINERY concept implementation into the large-scale biorefineries. The environmental and economical assessment will be performed along with the technological assessment for obtaining of the overall, integrated assessment of the optimized multi-stage process. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energynatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculeslipidsengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuelsengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentationengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion Keywords Bioenergy Biofuels Biorefinery Glycerol Green Green Chemicals Microbial conversion Process integration Renewables Programme(s) FP7-ENERGY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Energy Topic(s) ENERGY-2007-3.3-02 - New uses for glycerine in biorefineries Call for proposal FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET Address Anker engelunds vej 101 2800 Kongens lyngby Denmark See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Københavns omegn Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Peter Ruhdal Jensen (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 1 221 921,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BIOGASOL APS Denmark EU contribution € 1 190 160,00 Address Lautrupvang 2a 2800 Ballerup See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Niels Langvad (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window A&A BIOTECHNOLOGY SC Poland EU contribution € 463 200,00 Address Ul strzelca 40 80-299 Gdansk See on map Region Makroregion północny Pomorskie Trójmiejski Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Slawomir Dabrowski (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window IFEU - INSTITUT FUR ENERGIE- UND UMWELTFORSCHUNG HEIDELBERG GGMBH Germany EU contribution € 585 825,00 Address Wilckensstrasse 3 69120 Heidelberg See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Heidelberg, Stadtkreis Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Guido Reinhardt (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window MEROCO AS Slovakia EU contribution € 29 700,00 Address Trnavska cesta 92041 Leopoldov See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dusan Harustiak (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window PROCHIMIA SURFACES SP. Z O.O. Poland EU contribution € 264 000,00 Address Zacisze 2 81823 Sopot See on map Region Makroregion północny Pomorskie Trójmiejski Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Piotr Barski (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
