All Projects

CarboSurf
  • 1G sugar, 2G oils, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, Agricultural sidestreams, Biosurfactants, Custom manufacturing, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Detergents, Fatty acids, Fatty alcohols, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Food grade, Fucosylated carbohydrates, H2020 BBI-RIA, HMO, Lactose, MELs, Market sample production, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Personal and home care, Product recovery & purification, Rhamnolipids, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Sialylated carbohydrates, Sophorolipids, Specialty carbohydrates, Used cooking oil, Vegetable oils, WP leader, Xylolipids

The CARBOSURF project aims to develop new biobased processes as well as products and solves bottlenecks in the fermentative production of biobased biosurfactants and specialty carbohydrates. Specifically, it targets different glycolipid biosurfactants with a wide range of application fields and specialty carbohydrates, i.e. complex Human Milk Oligosaccharides that find applications as neutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic ingredients.

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DEMETER
  • 1G sugar, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, Agricultural sidestreams, Agricultural waste, Anaerobic digestion, Biogas, Carbohydrates, Custom manufacturing, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Enzyme formulation, Enzyme production, Enzymes, Fermentation, Finished projects, Formulation, Fuels, H2020 BBI-IA-DEMO, Product recovery & purification, Scale-up, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader

Demeter: Demonstrating more efficient enzyme production to increase biogas yields.
DEMETER will increase the yield of the fermentation process at an industrial scale as well as the down-stream processing of a C1-based biogas enzyme, reducing the cost of the end product and making the enzyme available for wide-spread application in biogas production throughout Europe.

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FUCATIL
  • (Inter)Cluster, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, 2G sugar - industrial, Acrylic deratives, Agricultural sidestreams, Automotive, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, Carbon fibres, Chemical building blocks, Coordinator, Corn stover, DSP process development, Fermentation, Finished projects, In situ product recovery, Industrial sidestreams, Lactic acid, Moonshot flanders-cSBO, Paper and cardboard, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, WP leader

Full Carbon Utilization: Conversion of abundant Flemish waste streams into platform chemicals using advanced separation and catalytic technologies

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Ghent Syngas Cluster
  • 2G biomass, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - forestry, AO-NIB, Biomass waste, CCU, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Ethanol, Fermentation, Finished projects, Fuels, Gas fermentation, Gasses, High TRL, Partner, Regional-flanders, Steel mill gasses, Syngas, VLAIO/AO

The Ghent Syngas Cluster project aimed at developing and demonstrating new innovative technology to convert syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas, into green chemicals, sustainable fuels and green electricity.

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Green-B2B
  • (Inter)Cluster, 1G sugar, 2G biomass, Biomass pretreatment, Bioplastics, Bulk chemicals, Butadiene, Butanediol, CO2, Diols, Fermentation, Finished projects, Gas fermentation, Gasses, H2, Industrial sidestreams, Low TRL, MOT 1 - biobased chemistry, Moonshot flanders-cSBO, Paper & cardboard, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, Sugar

Using micro-organisms, GREEN-B2B aims to convert paper and cardboard waste into chemicals such as biobased butadiene.

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Green-B2B-2
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - industrial, Bulk chemicals, Butadiene, Butanediol, Chemical building blocks, Fermentation, Finished projects, Green chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, Industrial sidestreams, Low TRL, Moonshot flanders-cSBO, Paper and cardboard, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, VLAIO/AO, WP leader

Sustainable production of butadiene from paper and cardboard waste through fermentation to 1,3-butanediol and catalytic conversion.

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iFermenter
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - forestry, Antimicrobial peptides, Finished projects, Food, Food ingredient, Food ingredients, Forestry waste, H2020 BBI-RIA, Partner, Peptides, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Proteins, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Wood, Woody sugars

iFermenter will render production of high value products with residual sugar stream highly efficient and cost-effective contributing to circular economy.

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MUCOFORM
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - industrial, Bulk chemicals, EU RRF project, Fermentation, Finished projects, Fwo, In situ product recovery, Industrial sidestreams, Low TRL, Muconic acid, Organic acids, Paper and cardboard, Partner, Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, Specialty chemicals, WP leader

Synthesis and transformation of muconic acid into platform molecules starting from biomass.

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NewPack
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, Agricultural sidestreams, Biodegradable, Biomass pretreatment, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Cellulose, Cellulose nanowhiskers, Chitin, Chitin nanowhiskers, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Food waste, Forestry sidestreams, H2020 BBI-RIA, Nano additives, PHA, PHB, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Potato peel, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader, Wheat straw

A new circular economy value chain will be generated from agro-food wastes that will be exploited for the production of PHB, while designing and validating the process up to pilot scale.

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