CSBR , Cashew-Shell Bio Refineries

腰果壳生物精炼厂

• 批准号: 10076235
• 金额: $ 5.63万
• 依托单位: CASHEW SHELL BIOREFINERY CSBR LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10076235
• 关键词: CSBR; Cashew; Shell; Bio; Refineries

We propose to transform the production of important aromatic chemicals that are currently made from petrol to being made from a food waste that is not competing with food for land.Most things we use or touch have been made by the chemical industry and most of these are originally derived from fossil fuel based resources. As fossil fuels deplete and because of major concerns about their implication in global warming and climate change, it is essential that we develop processes to make things with similar properties and effects to those we have and need now but derived from renewable resources. This means that we must grow the raw materials in plants, fungi, algae etc. but the plants we need to grow these renewable feedstocks must not use land that is currently used to grow food. Ideally, such resources will be wastes from e. g. food or paper production or will be non-food by-products of such processes.We have identified an oil found in the shell of cashew nuts (cashew nut shell liquid, CNSL) as an especially suitable resource. It is not edible, has few uses and is available at about 1 M tonnes per year at a low price. Most importantly, CNSL contains only a few chemicals and they have very interesting and exciting structures. If the oil is treated further via heating and distillation, we can extract up to 70 % cardanol.CSBR Ltd, the applicant for this project has licensed technology developed by the University of St Andrews (USTAN) , which consists of new chemical processes for making green and non-toxic bases from cardanol for a wide range of applications across the industry: surfactants, adhesives, fire resistant additives, coatings, detergents, insect attractants, fragrances and pharmaceuticals.The overall project concerns setting up a biorefinery based on cardanol, using the licensed technology, to make two platform chemicals in two sequential steps. The part of the project to be covered by the Transformative Technology grant will allow us to make the second step of the process ready for scale up. The first step is already more advanced and is being prepared for scale-up.

我们建议将目前由汽油制成的重要芳香化学品的生产转变为由食物垃圾制成，这些食物垃圾不会与食物争夺土地。我们使用或接触的大多数东西都是由化学工业制造的，其中大部分最初来自化石燃料资源。随着化石燃料的枯竭，以及人们对它们在全球变暖和气候变化中的影响的主要担忧，我们必须开发工艺，使其具有与我们现在拥有和需要的相似的特性和效果，但来自可再生资源。这意味着我们必须种植植物、真菌、藻类等原材料，但我们种植这些可再生原料所需的植物不得使用目前用于种植粮食的土地。理想情况下，这些资源将是来自电子废物。G.我们已经确定腰果壳中的一种油（腰果壳液，CNSL）是一种特别合适的资源。它不可食用，用途很少，每年约有100万吨，价格低廉。最重要的是，CNSL只含有少量的化学物质，它们具有非常有趣和令人兴奋的结构。如果通过加热和蒸馏进一步处理油，我们可以提取高达70%的腰果酚。CSBR有限公司，该项目的申请人已获得圣安德鲁斯大学（USTAN）开发的许可技术，该技术包括新的化学工艺，用于从腰果酚中制备绿色和无毒的碱，用于整个行业的广泛应用：整个项目涉及建立一个以腰果酚为基础的生物精炼厂，使用许可的技术，通过两个连续步骤生产两种平台化学品。该项目的一部分将由转型技术赠款覆盖，这将使我们能够为扩大规模做好第二步的准备。第一步已经更加先进，正在为扩大规模做准备。