Reference projects

Funding: BMBF; Leading Edge Cluster BioEconomy || Duration: October 2013 – July 2017 || The aim of the project "Fermentative Isobutene Production" is to transfer the process to pre-industrial scale. In the FIP project, a demonstration plant with a nominal capacity of 100 tonnes per year will be designed and constructed and the production process will be scaled up to a fermentation volume of 5000 liters.

Funding: BMBF || Duration: February 2020 – January 2023 || Ferulic acids are plant-based ingredients that serve as a starting substance for flavorings and are also in demand in medicine and cosmetics due to their antimicrobial properties. As part of the FeruBase project, a new biotechnological process for producing the natural substance is being optimized and scaled up to industrial scale at Fraunhofer CBP.

Funding: state of Saxony-Anhalt; ERDF || Duration: May 2016 – April 2018 || Within the framework of the project "FlexChem", the chemical production processes operated at a constant load should become more dynamic, so that in particular electricity consumers such as electric motors (for driving pumps, blowers or agitators) or electric heaters can be operated more flexibly without having a strong impact on the chemical production process.

Funding: EU || Duration: October 2016 – December 2020 || GreenCarbon is a project funded by the European Union in the framework of the H2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions – Innovative Training Networks. GreenCarbon provides career development and training opportunities for 14 researchers who are in the first 4 years of their research careers (Early-Stage Researchers, ESRs). The research programme focusses on the production of carbon materials on the basis of renewable resources to further develop them as catalysts or adsorbent materials for high-performance applications.

Funding: State of Saxony-Anhalt || Duration: February 2020 – October 2021 || Subject of the project is the construction of a scaling platform for the synthesis of basic chemicals from green hydrogen. The core objective is the construction of a multifunctional demonstration plant for the chemical conversion of green hydrogen.

Funding: EU || Duration: December 2017 – November 2021 || IBISBA 1.0 is a H2020-funded project that aims at building a European distributed network of research facilities to provide innovation services and accelerate translation of bioscience research into industrial applications.

Funding: BMBF || Duration: April 2009 – March 2012 || As highly specific catalysts, enzymes play a central role in industrial biotechnology. They are also in demand for technical applications, for example as sensors and indicators.

Funding: BMEL; FNR || Duration: September 2022 – August 2023 || The aim of KoBaOx is to develop a process for the sequential combination of base-catalyzed lignin polymerization (BCD) and alkaline oxidation with hydrogen peroxide for the production of novel carboxylated lignin derivatives that can find application in, for example, thermoplastics. The new oxidized lignin derivatives will be compared analytically with those from the individual processes and evaluated in terms of their technical and economic applicability.

Funding: BMBF; PTJ || Duration: November 2015 – May 2018 || The aim of the joint project KomBiChemPro is to combine various development activities for the material use of lignocellulose-containing biomass in an integrated biorefinery concept. The most important aspect is the production of marketable products using robust processes and efficient process management in order to ensure broad applicability and competitiveness against petrochemically produced materials and chemicals. On the basis of the work of the partners involved, the subprocesses are combined at one location, mapped in sufficient dimensions and accounted.

Duration: October 2018 – September 2022 || Funding: EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme || The aim of the LIBERATE collaborative project funded by the EU is to convert low-cost lignin feedstock into high-value and biosustainable chemicals such as vanillin or building blocks for biopolymers by electrochemical processes. For this, LIBERATE will deliver a pilot scale electrochemical plant and demonstrate a process for energy efficient conversion of lignin.