FermoChar: Fermentation residue into engineered char-based materials for sustainable industrial applications; A pathway to NetZero

FermoChar：将发酵残渣转化为工程炭基材料，用于可持续工业应用；

• 批准号: 10075795
• 金额: $ 79.97万
• 依托单位: TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10075795
• 关键词: FermoChar; Fermentation; residue; into; engineered

Fermentation is a major upstream process in many food, feed, beverages, biopharmaceutical and biotechnological industries. It is a metabolic process where microorganisms are responsible for chemical reactions to convert certain carbohydrates into various products. The choice of the product is usually based on the type of the microorganism used and the fermentation method.Upon the completion of the process, the broth is centrifuged to form supernatant, where the targeted products are usually dissolved, and residual solid waste that is composed of the cells, remaining feedstock and other metabolites. These residual solids are usually incinerated/landfilled or utilised by some industries to produce fertilisers and animal feed (not considered as process revenue). The separated liquid supernatant is subjected to downstream processing to extract and purify the targeted product. The downstream process is considered immensely costly and energy incentive stage as it consists of several steps of purification and utilise various materials. Adsorbents, such as char, are commonly used in these downstream process steps for purification and/ clarification of the products.This project is designed to provide an innovative and sustainable solution for a variety of biopharmaceutical and biotechnological industries. The residual waste from the fermentation process will be valorised into engineered value-added adsorbents that could be utilised in the downstream process or considered as process revenue. The properties of the developed adsorbents will mainly depend on the feedstock used and the type of cells. The project consists of two industrial partners from different fields including pharmaceutical and bioplastics that are utilising different feedstock and microorganisms and hence the produced bio-solids and resulting adsorbent material will vary. Modification of the produced materials will be investigated for the development of novel tailored adsorbents to be used in different downstream processes based on the targeted application of the industrial partner.

发酵是许多食品、饲料、饮料、生物制药和生物技术行业的主要上游工艺。它是一种代谢过程，其中微生物负责化学反应，将某些碳水化合物转化为各种产物。产品的选择通常取决于所用微生物的类型和发酵方法。在完成该过程后，将肉汤离心以形成上清液，其中通常溶解目标产品，以及由细胞、剩余原料和其他代谢产物组成的残余固体废物。这些残余固体通常被焚烧/填埋或被某些行业用于生产肥料和动物饲料（不被视为加工收入）。将分离的液体上清液进行下游处理以提取和纯化目标产物。下游工艺被认为是非常昂贵和能源激励阶段，因为它包括几个纯化步骤和使用各种材料。吸附剂，如焦炭，通常用于这些下游工艺步骤，用于产品的纯化和/澄清。该项目旨在为各种生物制药和生物技术行业提供创新和可持续的解决方案。发酵过程中的残余废物将被转化为工程增值吸附剂，可用于下游工艺或被视为工艺收入。所开发的吸附剂的性质将主要取决于所使用的原料和细胞的类型。该项目由来自不同领域的两个工业合作伙伴组成，包括制药和生物塑料，它们利用不同的原料和微生物，因此生产的生物固体和产生的吸附剂材料将有所不同。将研究生产材料的改性，以开发新型定制吸附剂，用于工业合作伙伴的目标应用的不同下游工艺。