Description du projet
Créer davantage de valeur avec les produits dérivés des déchets industriels
La transformation de la biomasse en matériaux valables et en énergie (la valorisation de la biomasse) est une composante clé de la stratégie de l’UE pour passer à une économie circulaire et neutre pour le climat d’ici 2050. Les industries sont de plus en plus incitées à introduire des systèmes à fractionnement efficaces et à développer des produits commerciaux pour exploiter leur potentiel en matière de biomasse. Dans ce contexte, le projet SUBLUBE, financé par l’UE, projette de tirer parti d’un procédé de fractionnement-hydrolyse afin de récupérer la subérine vierge dans les produits dérivés du liège. Le procédé utilisera de l’eau supercritique pour convertir la subérine en éléments constitutifs hautement fonctionnels pour des lubrifiants. Les résultats du projet créeront des connaissances utiles sur la transformation catalytique des produits dérivés de déchets agro-industriels en produits à valeur ajoutée dans des microréacteurs en flux continu et à grande échelle.
Objectif
Biomass valorization through biorefineries is integral towards the transition to a circular and climate neutral economy by 2050, as envisioned in the European Union Circular Economy Action Plan and in support of the European and Spanish Bioeconomy Strategy and the RIS3 Castilla y Leon Regional Strategy. To realize this, two important challenges need to be addressed: an efficient biomass fractionation system and the development of products close to market.
In response to these challenges, the SUBLUBE project aims to recover pristine suberin from cork industry byproducts through a cascaded fractionation-hydrolysis process with supercritical water as reaction media and to convert pristine suberin into highly functionalized biolubricant building block through subcritical water hydrolysis. The research will focus on evaluating the process conditions that would achieve high pristine suberin yields and highly functionalized building blocks in a laboratory scale and pilot scale continuous microreactors. Based from the results obtained, a techno-economic model will be prepared through process modeling and simulation. SUBLUBE is founded upon the integration of applied chemistry, chemical engineering, process fundamentals and materials science as a strategy for forestry products valorization. The findings of this research will benefit the society as a model for scalable biorefineries in continuous microreactors (innovation) that utilizes agro-industrial waste byproducts as resources for the sustainable generation of value added products (pristine suberin, biolubricants). It will lead to additional income streams for the cork processing industry (job creation) while reducing our dependence on vegetable oils and synthetic esters and greenhouse gas emissions. As a whole, this fellowship will support a female foreign researcher in demonstrating ability to work on a project that advances natural product valorization through green and sustainable technologies.
Champ scientifique
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsbioeconomy
- engineering and technologychemical engineering
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
47002 VALLADOLID
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