EuroBioRef -EUROpean Multilevel Integrated BIOREFinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing

The EuroBioRef project (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing; www.eurobioref.org) was a 4 year program coordinated by CNRS, France, launched on March 1^st 2010 and closed on February 28^th 2014. It was supported by a 23 M€ grant from the European Union 7^th Framework Program (FP7). EuroBioRef had the unique feature of dealing with the entire process of transformation of biomass, from non-edible crops production to final commercial products. It involved 29 partners (industry, SMEs, academics) from 15 different countries in a highly collaborative network, including crop production, biomass pre-treatment, fermentation and enzymatic processes, catalytic processes, thermochemical processes, assessed by a life cycle analysis and an economic evaluation of the whole development chain. With this strategy to develop next generation biorefineries, the project generated a lot of results, with an important impact on the European bioeconomy, including new energy and new chemical production pathways.

TUHH was involved in several values chains and in charge of the workpakage 4.2 "Development of integrated sub-processes to yield butanol, 1,3-propanediol and biogas" from glycerol, biomass hydrolysate and residual materials of oil plant processing. In particular, the TUHH team in cooperation with the Company ARCHEMA in France has developed an integrated novel fermentation process for the co-production of butanol and 1,3-propaneduiol, simultaneously.

Stichworte

• Biochemical Engineering
• biodiesel
• Biogas
• Biokonversion
• Biokraftstoffe
• Biomasse
• Biomethan
• Bioprozesstechnik
• Bioraffinerie
• Bioresources
• Biosystems Engineering
• Bioverfahrenstechnik

Publikationen

• T. Kaeding, D. Tjahjasari and A.-P. Zeng: 1,3-Propanediol and Polytrimethyleneterephthalate. Elsevier, , 2011
• Sabra, Wael; Dietz, David; Tjahjasari, Donna; Zeng, An-Ping : Biosystems analysis and engineering of microbial consortia for industrial biotechnology Engineering in Life Sciences(10): S. 407-421, 2010.
• Rieckenberg, Fabian and Ardao, In\'es and Rujananon, Rosarin and Zeng, An-Ping: Cell-free synthesis of 1,3-propanediol from glycerol with a high yield Engineering in Life Sciences, 14(4): S. 380--386, jul 2014.
• Groeger, C. and Sabra, W. and Zeng, A.-P.: Co-Produktion von 1,3-Propandiol und n-Butanol mit Clostridium pasteurianum und In-situ-Butanolabtrennung Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 86(9): S. 1490--1490, sep 2014.
• Gröger, C and Sabra, W and Zeng, A.-P.: Co-Produktion von Propandiol und Butanol in Fermentation mit In-Situ-Produkttrennung Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 2014.
• Rappert, S and Song, L and Sabra, W and Wang, W and Zeng, A P: Draft Genome Sequence of Type Strain Clostridium pasteurianum DSM 525 (ATCC 6013), a Promising Producer of Chemicals and Fuels Genome Announc, 1(1), 2013.
• Kubick, S and Zeng, A-P: Editorial: New and synthetic bioproduction systems Engineering in Life Sciences, 14(4): S. 338--339, jul 2014.
• Dietz, D and Zeng, A P: Efficient production of 1,3-propanediol from fermentation of crude glycerol with mixed cultures in a simple medium Bioprocess Biosyst Eng, 37(2): S. 225--233, 2014.
• Sabra, W and Groeger, C and Sharma, P N and Zeng, A P: Improved n-butanol production by a non-acetone producing Clostridium pasteurianum DSMZ 525 in mixed substrate fermentation Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 98(9): S. 4267--4276, 2014.
• Wael Sabra, Jian-Ying Dai, Hendrich Quitmann, A.-P. Zeng and Zhi-Long Xiu: Microbial production of 2, 3-butanediol. . Elsevier , , 2011
• Zeng, A P and Sabra, W: Microbial production of diols as platform chemicals: recent progresses Curr Opin Biotechnol, 22(6): S. 749--757, 2011.
• Zeng, A P: New biotechnological production systems Biotechnol J, 6(8): S. 907--908, 2011.
• Chatzifragkou, A and Papanikolaou, S and Dietz, D and Doulgeraki, A I and Nychas, G J and Zeng, A P: Production of 1,3-propanediol by Clostridium butyricum growing on biodiesel-derived crude glycerol through a non-sterilized fermentation process Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 91(1): S. 101--112, 2011.