Project description
The next generation of biodiesel
Waste fatty acids converted into alkanes are useful for the energy and transportation sectors. Traditional methods of conversion use fatty acid methyl esters. The EU-funded BioAlkane project will provide a field test for the economic and ecological feasibility of a new concept for the valorisation of waste fatty acids as alkanes. The project will employ a new catalyst class (photodecarboxylases) to establish an entirely new method to convert fatty acids into alkanes. BioAlkane will use an innovative photoreactor design to overcome existing restrictions of photobiocatalysis, such as low quantum efficiency due to low light penetration into the reactor. The project will also demonstrate the scalability and viability of a new generation of biodiesel.
Objective
BioAlkane will provide the proof-of-concept for the economic and ecological feasibility of a new concept for the valorisation of waste fatty acids as alkanes useful for the energy and transportation sector.
Using a new catalyst class (photodecarboxylases) we will establish a completely new method for the conversion of fatty acids into alkanes (instead of the traditionally used fatty acid methyl esters). Using a novel photoreactor design, we will overcome current limitations of photobiocatalysis (i.e. low quantum efficiency due to poor light penetration into the reactor) and demonstrate the scaleability and economic viability of our next generation of biodiesel.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules lipids
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology biomaterials biofuels
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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ERC-POC - Proof of Concept Grant
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Call for proposal
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2628 CN Delft
Netherlands
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