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2013|14 Annual Report Fraunhofer IGB

FRAUNHOFER CENTER FOR CHEMICAL- BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES CBP The Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Process- es CBP in Leuna, central Germany, closes the gap between the lab and industrial implementation. By making infrastructure and plants (pilot scale and miniplants) available, the center makes it possible for cooperation partners from research and industry to develop and scale up biotechnological and chemi- cal processes for the utilization of renewable raw materials right up to industrial scale. The Fraunhofer CBP building, that houses several plants, labs, offices and storage facilities on over 2000 square meters, was completed in September 2012 and inaugurated on October 2, 2012 in the presence of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Center represents a hitherto unique platform for developing new processes up to commercially relevant scale, with a direct link to the chemical industry on the one hand, and to Fraunhofer research on the other. Joint projects involve partners from industry, academia and non-university research establishments, and currently focus on the following specializations: Obtaining high quality extractives from biogenic raw and residual materials Pulping of lignocellulose, separation and use of its components to make further products Development of processes to obtain new technical enzymes Manufacturing of biobased alcohols, acids and olefins using fermentation and chemical processes Functionalization of vegetable oils, e.g. biotechnological epoxidation and ω-functionalization The core focus of the Fraunhofer CBP’s activities is the sustain- ability of processes along the entire value chain involved in generating products based on renewable raw materials. The goal is to achieve integrated, cascading material and energetic utilization of ideally the entire components of any given plant biomass, using the biorefinery concept. Process development thus concentrates on the following as- pects: Exploiting the carbon synthesis potential provided by nature The energy and resource efficiency of the processes developed Minimizing waste streams Reducing CO2 emissions Utilizing plants that are not suited as either human food or animal feed Integration of the processes developed into existing sys- tems, for example to obtain biogas from residual biomass Small and medium-sized enterprises frequently do not have the resources of their own to realize the transfer of these new technologies from the laboratory to industrially relevant orders of magnitude. The center’s pilot scale and miniplant facilities offer these customers an excellent platform for process devel- opment. COMPETENCES 58

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