Objetivo
Goal is to create a true economic driver as the ultimate hurdle to overcome in the use of large-scale biological feedstock for industrial purposes, improving European energy-supply security and to stimulate sustainable European bulk chemical industries. SME Avantium Technologies BV (Avantium) will establish a new research group to develop economical sound bio-alternatives for bulk (petro) chemical materials.
This involves the following objectives:
1. Investigate all chains of low-cost raw biomaterial, with sugar as current most promising feedstock for sucrose, cellulose or fructose feedstock production;
2. Minimise the costs of processes converting biomass into organic chemicals (high selectivities and yields) or hydrogen.
3. Discover the potential of obtained bio chemicals into end-application in term of process costs and end-product performance.
The second step involves Avantium's proposition of a revolution in bio(petro)chemical research. As a unique and renown specialist on heterogenic catalyst processes for the (petro) chemical fine and bulk industry, Avantium is bound to discover a "perfect" solid bed catalyst for the conversion of bio feed-stock into fine and bulk (petro)chemicals and hydrogen. However, Avantium lacks in-depth knowledge of food chemistry and biopolymers in order to complete the bulk production chains.
Therefore, the objectives of this Transfer of Knowledge project are:
- To fill knowledge gaps of Avantium of Hexose C6 Food Chemistry (step 1) and Biochemical end-products (step 3) by recruiting, training and hosting experienced researchers on these fields for two years.
- To enable these hosted external researchers to pro-actively discover the opportunities of heterogenic catalyst technology for novel biochemical processing, leading to one or more validated integrated operational solutions to industrialise value-added fine and bulk chemicals and hydrogen from biomass (sugar), competitive to current fossil feed-stock industries.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
- ciencias naturalesciencias biológicasbioquímicabiomoléculascarbohidratos
- ciencias naturalesciencias químicascatálisis
- ingeniería y tecnologíaingeniería ambientalenergía y combustibles
- ingeniería y tecnologíabiotecnología industrialbiomaterial
- ciencias agrícolasbiotecnología agrícolabiomasa
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Convocatoria de propuestas
FP6-2005-MOBILITY-3
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Régimen de financiación
TOK - Marie Curie actions-Transfer of KnowledgeCoordinador
AMSTERDAM
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