SBIR Phase II: A New Bio-based Monomer for the Coatings Industry

SBIR 第二阶段：用于涂料行业的新型生物基单体

• 批准号: 2025857
• 负责人: Kevin Barnett
• 金额: $ 96.17万
• 依托单位: PYRAN INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-15 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; New; Bio

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to provide domestic production of renewable, biomass-based alternatives to products currently made from oil. This SBIR Phase II project will demonstrate the commercial potential of producing 1,5-pentanediol (1,5-PDO), a key chemical used to manufacture coatings, adhesives, and plastics, from agricultural wastes like corn cobs. Biomass-based chemicals can decrease the nation's dependence on oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while providing cost-competitive high-performance chemical products. Creating high-value commodity chemicals using nonfood agricultural materials as feedstock promises to create new markets for bio-based waste products.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will generate the necessary experimental data to design commercial reactors for producing renewable bio-based 1,5-pentanediol. A chemical pathway to produce bio-based 1,5-pentanediol has been demonstrated in laboratory reactors using commercially relevant reactors and catalysts. In this work a wide range of reactor operating conditions will be explored in the laboratory for scale-up of the process. These operating conditions will be further demonstrated in larger pilot-scale equipment to inform design at commercial scale.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为国内生产可再生的、基于生物质的替代品，以取代目前由石油制成的产品。SBIR二期项目将展示利用玉米芯等农业废弃物生产1，5-戊二醇(1，5-PDO)的商业潜力，1，5-PDO是制造涂料、胶粘剂和塑料的关键化学品。生物质化学品可以减少国家对石油的依赖，减少温室气体排放，同时提供具有成本竞争力的高性能化学品产品。以非食用农业原料为原料创造高价值的商品化学品有望为生物废物产品创造新的市场。这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将产生必要的实验数据，以设计用于生产可再生生物基1，5-戊二醇的商业反应堆。使用商业上相关的反应器和催化剂，在实验室反应器中证明了一种生产基于生物的1，5-戊二醇的化学方法。在这项工作中，将在实验室探索广泛的反应堆操作条件，以扩大该工艺的规模。这些操作条件将在更大的试点规模的设备中进一步展示，为商业规模的设计提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。