Projects
GREEN-B2B: Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from Butanediols Catalisti
Butadiene from biomass?
1,3-butadiene (BD) is an important bulk chemical for the polymer industry. Annually, 15 million tons of BD are produced worldwide, for example for its application in the rubber industry. Today, the production of BD is fossil-based. Biomass, however, represents an interesting alternative ...
Search and Study of Antartic meteorites, Belgian contribution SAMBA Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Meteorites are the left over building blocks of the Solar System. As such they provide valuable clues to its origin and evolution as well as to the formation of the planets. The majority comes from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, extremely rare ones were ejected from the deep crust of the Moon and Mars during large impact events. The meteorites are classified in groups corresponding to ...
GREEN-B2B-2: Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from Butanediols Ghent University
1,3-butadiene (1,3-BD) is an important raw material for the polymer industry such as styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), polybutadiene rubber (PBR), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), etc. Flanders currently has a fossil-based 1,3-BD production capacity of 300 kt/year through BASF and Evonik. GREEN-B2B-2 aims to expand this capacity in a sustainable way by 10% (i.e., 30 kt/year), resulting in a CO2 emission reduction of 150 kt/year. This is ...
Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from Butanediols KU Leuven
GREEN-B2B opens the way to the sustainable production of bulk chemicals such as butadiene (BD) from biomass, while at the same time avoiding CO2 emissions. By clever integration of functionalities in micro-organisms, the CO2 inherently produced during fermentation will be reused during the process itself. Thanks to innovation in genetic engineering, catalyst design and synthesis, and kinetic and process modeling through a diverse, yet ...
Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from Butanediols Ghent University
GREEN-B2B will pave the way towards the sustainable production of a bulk chemical product such as butadiene (BD) from waste biomass, simultaneously avoiding CO2 emissions. By a smart integration of functionalities, CO2 inherently produced during fermentation will be consumed within the process itself. Thanks to innovations in genetic engineering, catalyst design and synthesis, and kinetic and process modeling by a diverse, yet complementary ...
inteGRating mEchnochEmistry aNd mEmbranes for lithium-ion battery Recycling: a closed-loop route (GREENER) KU Leuven
Aiming to address the current challenges in Li-ion battery (LIB) recycling associated with the low recovery rate and low purity of recycled materials, the GREENER project proposes a new technical route that integrates novel mechanochemical processing (MP) and membrane technology (MT) to produce industry-grade materials readily available for cathode re-synthesis. A novel MP method will be investigated to increase the yield and selectivity in ...
Selective catalytic conversion of cellulose fractions KU Leuven
Nowadays, there is a tremendous interest in greener alternatives to the petroleum-based production of fuels, chemicals and materials in classical refineries. The valorization of lignocellulosic biomass in so-called biorefineries could be an interesting alternative due to the renewable nature of biomass. Lignocellulose is an abundant biomaterial that can be found in cell walls of numerous plants like trees, grasses and energy crops and mainly ...
Support of SAMBA (VUB) mission to Station Princess Elisabeth in Antarctica Vrije Universiteit Brussel
GREEN-B2B-2:Acid Catalyzed Production of Green Butadiene from Butanediols-2
Catalisti
GREEN-B2B-2 aims at the sustainable production of 30 kt/a green, ‘add-on’ 1,3-butadiene (5 to 10% admixture in conventional 1,3-butadiene) via the microbial production of 1,3-butanediol (1,3-BDO) from waste biomass (and CO2) and subsequent acid catalyzed dehydration into 1,3-butadiene (1,3-BD). This will be achieved through innovative genetic engineering, (gas) fermentation, catalyst ...