B4: Better Biobased Building Blocks
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.
20-10-2015
Biorizon nominated as Enlightenment of the Year
Shared Research Center Biorizon has been nominated as Enlightenment of the Year 2015 by Industrielinqs. Enlightenmentz are shining examples for a sustainable future. Together they can cause a green industrial revolution. The winner will be announced at the 'Sustainably Produced Conference' on 19 November 2015.
05-10-2015
Lignin as raw material for asphalt and roofing
Put a chemist and road-builder together and you have an explosive mix. Not in the sense that there is a danger of explosion but in terms of power and knowledge. By joining forces in the laboratory, Dr Ted Slaghek and Dave van Vliet of Biorzion co-founder TNO created a type of bitumen with improved properties. Based on lignin.
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