All Projects

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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Bio Base NWE
  • Biocatalysis, Biomass pretreatment, Coordinator, Fermentation, Finished projects, Green chemistry, Innovation vouchers, Interreg NWE, Investment project, Networking, Process development, Product recovery & purification, SME support, Scale-up, Value chain building, WP leader

The project aims to accelerate the growth of the biobased economy, EU and local partners joined forces by providing financial, technological, training, networking and political support to enterprises in North West Europe (NWE) innovating in biobased products and processes.

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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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DAFIA
  • Active barrier coatings, Biochemicals, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, Chemical building blocks, Di-amines, Fermentation, Finished projects, Flame retardants, Food related sidestreams, H2020-RIA, MSW, Marine waste, Muconic acid, Municipal solid waste, Other feedstock, Polyamides, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty chemicals, WP leader

The main objective of DAFIA is to exploit the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes (MSW) and marine rest raw materials (MRRM) as feedstocks for higher value products.

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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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DemoProBio
  • 1G sugar, AO-NIB, Aceton, Acetonitrile, Bulk chemicals, Butanol, Ethanol, Fermentation, Finished projects, Fuels, In situ product recovery, Product recovery & purification, Regional-flanders, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Solvents, VLAIO/AO, WP leader

Industrial biotechnology plays a crucial role in the development of sustainable and cost effective production processes for biobased chemicals. These processes typically consist of two distinct unit operations: fermentation, followed by purification of the compound of interest from the fermentation broth. Product recovery and purification (also called downstream processing or DSP) are important cost factors, responsible for up to 80% of the total production cost. Reducing DSP cost is therefore a key success factor to improve the overall economics of biobased processes.

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IB2Market
  • 1G sugar, Agricultural sidestreams, Biosurfactants, Bola sophorolipids, Coordinator, Detergents, FP7, Fatty acids, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Fucosylated carbohydrates, HMOs, Lactose, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Personal and home care, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty carbohydrates, Sugar, Vegetable oils, WP leader

IB2Market aims to bring industrial biotechnology from the research lab to the market and to solve the bottle-necks in industrialization. The project covers process development, scale up, market exploration and the drafting of a valorization plan to support a successful market introduction.

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IMPACT
  • Blue hall, Coordinator, Custom manufacturing, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), EFRO/ERDF, Fermentation, Food grade, Gas fermentation, Infrastructure, Innovation, Investment project, Ongoing projects, Product recovery & purification, SME support, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader

Opbouw van nieuwe demonstratie apparatuur – Building new demonstration equipment.

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