All Projects

WASTE2FUNC
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, 2G sugar - food, Agricultural sidestreams, Agricultural waste, Biosurfactants, Bulk chemicals, Coordinator, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Detergent ingredients, Detergents, Fatty acids, Fermentation, Food related sidestreams, Food waste, H2020 BBI-IA-DEMO, Lactic acid, Market sample production, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Ongoing projects, PLA, Personal and home care, Polylactic acid, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Starch, Used cooking oil, Vegetable oils

The WASTE2FUNC project aims to resolve supply chain hurdles towards the efficient conversion of food (crop) waste into two types of biobased functional molecules.

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YAF
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, 2G sugar - food, 2G sugar - industrial, Advanced fuel, Agricultural sidestreams, Agricultural waste, Algae, Biomass pretreatment, Fermentation, Food related sidestreams, Food waste, Fuels, HEurope-MSCA, HEurope-Other, Industrial sidestreams, Jet fuel, Low TRL, Ongoing projects, Paper and cardboard, Partner, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Residue textile industry, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader

Yeast-based solutions for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

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Afterlife
  • Aerobic fermentation, Anaerobic fermentation, Bioplastics, CAPEX, Circular Economy, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Fermentation, H2020 BBI-RIA, Industrial sidestreams, LCA, Mixed culture, PHA, PHB, Passed projects, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Process waters, Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader

The AFTERLIFE project proposes a flexible, cost- and resource-efficient process for recovering and valorising the relevant fractions from wastewater.

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AppliSurf
  • (Inter)Cluster, 1G sugar, Biosurfactants, Catalisti-SBO, Detergents, Fatty acids, Fatty alcohols, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Glucose, Green chemistry, High throughput screening, Industrial biotechnology, Industry user group, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Ozonolysis, Personal and home care, Personal care, Product recovery & purification, Regional-flanders, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty carbohydrates, Vegetable oils, WP leader

Screening the application potential of a yeast-based biosurfactant portfolio. In AppliSurf a combination of genetic modification, fermentation development/optimization and green chemistry will be applied to enable commercial production at acceptable cost of an innovative and broad portfolio of biosurfactant structures.

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BIOCON-CO2
  • Acrylic deratives, Alcohols, Biocatalysis, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, CCU, CO, CO2, Feed, Feed additives, Feed ingredients, Fermentation, Finished projects, Formic acid, Gas fermentation, Gasses, H2, H2020-RIA, Lactic acid, Mobile unit, PHA, PHB, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty chemicals, Steel mill gasses, Waste gasses

BIOtechnological processes based on microbial platforms for the CONversion of CO2 from iron&steel industry into commodities for chemicals and plastics

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BIO-HArT
  • Agricultural sidestreams, Aromatics, Biomass pretreatment, Carbohydrate extraction, Carbohydrates, Corn stover, Finished projects, Flax shives, Forestry sidestreams, Interreg VL-NL, Lignin, Lignin extraction, Miscanthus, Partner, Process development (TRL 4-5), Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty chemicals

Biorizon has developed three commercially promising technologies for the conversion of wood, sugars and lignin into aromatics. By demonstrating the technology within this project on a larger scale, the confidence in the applicability of the technology on an industrial scale enhances and the risk to invest diminishes.

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Biosurfing
  • 1G sugar, Biosurfactants, Cosmetic ingredients, Detergents, FP7, Fatty acids, Fermentation, Finished projects, Glucose, Nano technology, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Personal and home care, Personal care, Process development, Product recovery & purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Sophorolipids, Vegetable oils, WP leader

This project aims to create new-to-nature and tailor-made biosurfactants through metabolic engineering of the unconventional yeast Starmerella bombicola.
Surfactants or surface active agents are applied in a wide range of industries and products e.g. cleaning, personal care, cosmetics, agriculture, oil recovery, paper industry.

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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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ChitoBioEngineering
  • 1G sugar, Agriculture, Bacterial, Biopolymers, Chitin, Chito-oligosaccharides, Chitosans, Coordinator, E. coli, ERA-IB, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Glucose, Process development (TRL 4-5), Sucrose, Sugar, WP leader

The ChitoBioEngineering project aims at establishing biotechnological ways of producing fully defined, partially acetylated chitosan oligomers. This will be achieved through genetic, metabolic, and enzyme engineering.

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