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物质的生产转变为由不与食物竞争土地竞争的食物浪费制成的。化学工业所用或触摸的大多数东西最初是从基于化石燃料的资源中得出的。由于化石燃料耗尽，并且由于对它们在全球变暖和气候变化中的含义的主要关注点，因此我们必须开发过程，使其具有与现在和现在所需要的属性和效果相似但源于可再生资源的过程。这意味着我们必须在植物，真菌，藻类等中种植原材料，但是我们需要种植这些可再生原料的植物不得使用目前用于种植食物的土地。理想情况下，这种资源将是e的废物。 g。食品或纸张生产或将是此类过程的非食品副产品。我们确定在腰果壳（腰果壳液体，CNSL）中发现的石油是一种特别合适的资源。它不是可食用的，几乎没有用途，并且每年约1 m吨，价格低。最重要的是，CNSL仅包含几种化学物质，它们具有非常有趣且令人兴奋的结构。 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吸引者，香水和药品。整个项目涉及使用许可技术基于野生酚建立基于卡班醇的生物填充厂，以两个顺序的步骤制作两种平台化学品。该项目的一部分将由变革性技术赠款覆盖，这将使我们能够为扩大规模做好准备的第二步。第一步已经更加先进，正在准备扩大规模。