Tag: KU Leuven
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Lignin First Biorefinery Pilot Scale Installation
Lignin-first biorefinery at pilot-scale: KULeuven and MTSA Technopower finalising detailed design
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Can Wood Replace Oil in Chemistry?
An interdisciplinary team of bio-engineers and economists has mapped out how wood could replace petroleum in the chemical industry.
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Biorizon 2019 Upscaling Bio-Aromatics
With over 150 visitors, the annual event of Shared Research Center Biorizon at the end of November was well-visited. The bio-aromatics event highlighted the upscaling efforts currently underway in the three research directions or ‘horizons’: the production of bio-aromatics from sugars, lignin and biomass residual flows (via pyrolysis and gasification).
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Producing Bio-Sourced Biodegradable Plastic Just Got Cheaper and Greener
Biosourced, biodegradable, biocompatible and fit for 3D printing, polylactic acid PLA seems to earn the pole position in the bioplastics market race. Yet, PLA is not yet considered a full alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics such as Polyethylene Terephtalate (PET) or Polystyrene (PS), as it is costly to produce.
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Bio Aromatics Derived From Lignin
Aromatic compounds are so easily extracted from (fossil-based) naphtha, that bio aromatics seemed to be science fiction. The reason: lignin, the most probable resource, was hard to handle. Green chemistry knowledge advances so fast that research groups like Dutch / Flemish Biorizon (TNO, VITO and Green Chemistry Campus) provide the possibility to commercially produce Bio aromatics from lignin…
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