Objective
Recent development in the use of 1,3-propane idol (PD) as a monomer for novel polyesters and biodegradable plastics leads to a strong market need for an economical and sustainable production of this emerging bulk chemical, favourably by a biological route. Microorganisms from glycerol can naturally only produce PD. The present production volume and price of glycerol is prohibitive for the biological route to compete with the chemical rout. The objective of this proposal is thus to extend the substrate spectrum of microbial PD to cheaper and more abundant renewable resources (glucose, starch and sucrose). This will be achieved by designing new biological pathways and biocatalysts with genetic tools and by developing novel process configurations. The process will be demonstrated on an industrial scale. It will open new ways for a flexible utilisation of renewable resources for non-food value-added products.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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.
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 organic chemistry aliphatic compounds
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis biocatalysis
- social sciences economics and business economics sustainable economy
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology
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Coordinator
38124 BRAUNSCHWEIG
Germany
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