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

越来越多的工业、监管和消费者要求在一系列日常产品中使用更环保的替代品，尤其是配方非食品产品。对于英国政府和制造商来说，在整个化学工业中使用生物基替代品来替代石化衍生成分也是一项关键战略。一系列低价值生物质残留物的生物精炼提供了一种生产替代化石基材料的中间化学品的方法，同时增加了它们的价值并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，而且常常无利可图。Bio-Sep利用其新颖的超声波加工专利技术，旨在在刺激英国生物经济投资的同时，逐步改变生物精炼。Bio-Sep与流程创新、化学品、复合材料和汽车领域的强大全球领导者联盟合作，旨在优化Sonichem技术，用于特定的、可再生的、一致的和广泛可用的英国生物质，并产生与油漆、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。该联盟将探索使用木质素来开发复合树脂配方，该配方含有高水平的可再生、非石化成分，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馏，在温和的操作条件下以商业上可行和环境可持续的方式实现，以生产高质量的木质素。木质素将被证明适用于生产与汽车行业相关的复合材料的可再生、低碳和生物基原料。这些成果使Bio-Sep能够为创新的规模化提供基础，更广泛地推广Sonichem生物炼制概念，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。

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.