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Project
Waste oil to long-chain dicarboxylic acids (WODCA).
The overall scientific goal of WODCA is to create new, sustainable, affordable long-chain dicarboxylic acids (LCDA) from waste oil that are relevant for industrial applications such as high-performance polymers, lubricants, coatings, corrosion inhibitors, etc. For this purpose, new non-pathogenic micro-organisms are developed as biocatalysts in an optimised fermentation process based on used frying oil, followed by an innovative membrane-based purification to obtain high purity LCDAs suitable for various Flemish chemical companies.
Date:1 Apr 2022 → Today
Keywords:ORGANIC WASTE, INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENETIC MODIFIED ORGANISMS, MEMBRANES
Disciplines:Modelling, simulation and optimisation, Membrane technologies, Separation technologies, Bioprocessing, bioproduction and bioproducts, Industrial microbiology, Industrial molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins, Lipids, Regulation of metabolism, Systems biology not elsewhere classified, Biocatalysis, Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics, Heat and mass transfer, Other (bio)chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Project type:Collaboration project