Newton Bhabha Industrial Waste: Integrated biorefinery for converting paper mill waste into chemical wealth (waste-2-wealth)

印度是世界上增长最快的纸张市场（每年6%;到2024- 2025年，印度的需求预计将增加到2350万吨）。然而，伴随这一趋势的是大量的工业废物，特别是作为这一不断扩大的行业的一部分而积累的木质纤维素材料。该提案解决了与印度有关的一些紧迫问题，包括a）通过新兴的生物经济加强国家的经济地位，B）需要应对重大和日益增长的环境废物管理挑战，以及c）通过新的就业机会解决全国范围内的贫困问题。我们的团队将开发一个创新的生物炼制和商业战略，以建立一个示范平台，将造纸厂废物可持续地转化为高价值的化学品。该平台将用于通过商业对内投资推动可持续扩张。这项技术将减少工业废物/污染，并提高造纸和纸浆工业部门废物的价值回收。该提案将加强印度的经济地位，应对主要的废物挑战，并解决农村贫困问题。生物精炼厂是建立在合作伙伴的专业知识i）废物原料的价值（印度）; ii）在工业水平上使用生物工程菌株进行香料生产和原料利用（英国）; iii）该市场领域的商业专业知识（英国/印度）。创新在于统一现有技术，形成生物精炼概念，实现分布式，绿色，可扩展和可持续的化学品生产，主要造纸厂废物流。生物精炼厂将推动外来投资，以加强印度的经济地位，解决主要的废物挑战，并通过创造就业机会解决贫困问题。

India is the fastest growing paper market in the world (6% per annum; by 2024-25 Indian demand is projected to increase to 23.50 million MT). However, alongside this trend is the huge amount of industrial waste, especially lignocellulosic material that accumulates as part of this expanding industry. This proposal addresses a number of urgent problems relevant to India, including a) a strengthening of the countries economic position through the emerging bioeconomy, b) the need to tackle major and growing environmental waste management challenges and c) addressing countrywide poverty prevalence through new employment. Our team will develop an innovative biorefinery and commercial strategy to establish a demonstrator platform for the sustainable conversion of paper mill waste into high value chemicals. This platform will be used to drive sustainable expansion through commercial inward investment. This technology will lead to reduction in industrial waste/pollution, and improve value recovery from waste in the paper and pulp industry sector. The proposal will strengthen India's economic position, address major waste challenges and tackle rural poverty. The biorefinery is built from partner expertise in i) valorisation of waste feedstock (India); ii) use of bioengineered strains for fragrance production at industrial levels, and feedstock utilisation (UK); iii) commercial expertise in this market sector (UK/India). The innovation is found in unifying existing technologies to form the biorefinery concept, enabling distributed, green, scalable and sustainable manufacture of chemicals from major paper mill waste streams. The biorefinery will drive inward investment to strengthen India's economic position, address major waste challenges and tackle poverty prevalence through job creation.