Carbon-neutral Agroforestry-derived Resins to Materials for Automotive applications (CARMA)

碳中性农林衍生树脂到汽车应用材料 (CARMA)

• 批准号: 10078443
• 金额: $ 75.51万
• 依托单位: BIO-SEP LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative 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: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10078443
• 关键词: Carbon; neutral; Agroforestry; derived; Resins

There is increasing industrial, regulatory and consumer demand for the use of greener alternatives across a range of everyday products, with a particular focus on formulated non-food items. It is also a key strategy for the UK government and manufacturers to use biobased alternatives to petrochemical-derived ingredients across the chemical industry. Bio-refining of a range of low-value biomass residues offers a way to produce intermediate chemicals to replace fossil-based materials, whilst simultaneously increasing their value and reducing their impact on the environment. However, current biorefining technologies are wasteful, inefficient and often unprofitable.Bio-Sep, using its novel, patented ultrasonic processing technology, aims to make a step-change in biorefining while stimulating investments in the UK bioeconomy. In collaboration with a strong consortium of global leaders in process innovation, chemicals, composites and automotives, Bio-Sep aims to optimise the Sonichem technology for specific, renewable, consistent, and widely-available UK biomass and generate platform chemicals directly relevant to the paints, coatings, cosmetics, construction, resins, pharmaceuticals, and additives markets. The consortium will explore the use of lignin to pioneer composite resin formulations that contain high-levels of renewable, non-petrochemical content, and utilise low-carbon feedstocks. As part of the project, applications of this material to composites for automotive applications will be investigated.The main outcome of the project will be optimised and validated ultrasonic fractionation of UK biomass residues, achieved in a commercially-viable and environmentally-sustainable manner under mild operating conditions, to produce high-quality lignin. The lignin will be demonstrated as suitable for the production of renewable, low carbon and bio-based feedstocks for composite materials relevant to the automotive sector. These outcomes allow Bio-Sep to provide a basis for the scaling of the innovation, promote the Sonichem biorefinery concept more widely, and advance subsequent commercialisation with exploitation partners across the chemicals industry.

工业、监管和消费者对在一系列日常产品中使用更绿色替代品的需求越来越大，特别是配方非食品。这也是英国政府和制造商的一项关键战略，即在整个化工行业使用基于生物的替代品来替代石化衍生成分。一系列低价值生物质残渣的生物精炼提供了一种生产中间化学品以取代化石材料的方法，同时增加了它们的价值，减少了它们对环境的影响。然而，目前的生物精炼技术既浪费又低效，而且往往无利可图。Bio-Sep使用其新颖的专利超声波处理技术，旨在实现生物精炼的一步改变，同时刺激对英国生物经济的投资。Bio-Sep与工艺创新、化学品、复合材料和汽车领域的全球领先者组成的强大财团合作，旨在为特定的、可再生的、一致的和广泛可用的英国生物质生产Sonicem技术，并生产与涂料、涂料、化妆品、建筑、树脂、药品和添加剂市场直接相关的平台化学品。该财团将探索使用木质素来开创含有高水平可再生、非石化成分的复合树脂配方，并利用低碳原料。作为该项目的一部分，将研究这种材料在汽车应用复合材料中的应用。该项目的主要成果将是优化和验证英国生物质残留物的超声波分级，在温和的操作条件下以商业可行和环境可持续的方式实现，以生产高质量的木质素。该木质素将被证明适合于生产与汽车行业相关的可再生、低碳和生物基复合材料原料。这些成果使Bio-Sep能够为创新的规模提供基础，更广泛地推广Sonicem生物炼油厂的概念，并与整个化工行业的开发合作伙伴一起推进后续的商业化。