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

碳中性农林衍生树脂到汽车应用材料 (CARMA)

• 批准号: 10078443
• 金额: $ 75.51万
• 依托单位: BIO-SEP LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10078443
• 关键词: Carbon; neutral; Agroforestry; derived; Resins

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.

工业、监管和消费者对在一系列日常产品中使用绿色替代品的需求不断增加，特别是配方非食品产品。这也是英国政府和制造商在整个化学行业使用生物基替代品来替代石化衍生成分的一项关键战略。对一系列低价值生物质残留物进行生物精炼提供了一种生产中间化学品以替代化石材料的方法，同时增加其价值并减少其对环境的影响。然而，当前的生物精炼技术浪费、效率低下，而且往往无利可图。Bio-Sep 利用其新颖的专利超声波处理技术，旨在在生物精炼领域取得重大变革，同时刺激对英国生物经济的投资。 Bio-Sep 与工艺创新、化学品、复合材料和汽车领域的全球领导者组成的强大联盟合作，旨在针对特定、可再生、一致且广泛使用的英国生物质优化 Sonichem 技术，并生成与涂料直接相关的平台化学品、涂料、化妆品、建筑、树脂、药品和添加剂市场。该联盟将探索使用木质素来开发含有高水平可再生、非石化成分的复合树脂配方，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，在温和的条件下以商业上可行和环境可持续的方式实现操作条件，生产高品质木质素。该木质素将被证明适合生产汽车行业相关复合材料的可再生、低碳和生物基原料。这些成果使 Bio-Sep 能够为扩大创新规模提供基础，更广泛地推广 Sonichem 生物精炼概念，并与整个化学品行业的开发合作伙伴共同推进后续商业化。