B4: Better Biobased Building Blocks
21-03-2016
Biorizon and Avans University of Applied Sciences join forces in aromatics research
Shared Research Center Biorizon co-initiator TNO is establishing a close collaboration with The Avans Centre of Expertise Biobased Economy (CoE BBE) in Breda. The partnership is aimed at conducting research into increasing the yield of aromatic building blocks from biomass.
05-01-2016
Biorizon moves forward with bio-aromatics research
Biorizon and partners have been granted a European and provincial contribution to organize, coordinate and scale up the research in the field of bio-aromatics in Southern Netherlands.
04-01-2016
Lignin makes a take-off across the board
Ludo Diels, senior researcher sustainable chemistry at Biorizon partner VITO, is very positive about the future of lignin. This wood component used to be a waste product, useful at most for energy production; now, research institutes and companies develop many applications.
03-12-2015
Biorizon Event | Next challenge: scale up production
Biorizon inspired many representatives from industry at its second Community Event, held on 17 November. It presented a state of affairs about the progress Biorizon is making along the ‘road to bio-aromatics’, and what challenges lie ahead.
03-12-2015
Follow-up to Biorizon’s successful Waste2Aromatics project planned
Dutch households produce a total of almost five million tons of household waste each year. The Waste2Aromatics project explored various ways of using carbohydrates (sugars) in waste streams as feedstock for the production of biobased aromatics. As one of the partners in Biorizon, TNO was involved in this project, as were Attero, AEB, Orgaworld, and the Dutch Waste Management Association. The partners’ efforts have been crowned with success. The technologies they selected proved to be highly efficient at converting sugars in waste into useful building blocks. Also – importantly – various business cases have been worked out which, according to the calculations, are very promising. This generated sufficient material and enthusiasm for a follow-up project, which is currently being developed within Biorizon’s framework.
03-11-2015
Production of Bio-aromatics from Organic Waste and Domestic Waste
It will be clear soon how the processes devised for the production of bio-aromatics from organic waste and domestic waste are progressing on the laboratory scale. The first calculation of the returns and the cost can also be made at that stage. Biorizon business manager Joop Groen and Marcel Ligter, process technologist at Attero, are confident that these processes can be profitable.
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