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Systemic approach to Reduce Energy demand and CO2 emissions of processes that transform agroforestry waste into High Added value Products.

Descripción del proyecto

Revalorización de residuos agroforestales y obtención de materiales innovadores

Europa alberga varias empresas químicas líderes mundiales. Sin embargo, la producción de compuestos bioquímicos a partir de biomasa y subproductos se limita a unos pocos compuestos. Además, uno de los recursos disponibles más abundantes son los residuos lignocelulósicos. En el proyecto REHAP, financiado con fondos europeos, se pretende revalorizar los residuos agrícolas (como la paja de trigo) y forestales (como la corteza) recuperando y procesando componentes primarios como hidratos de carbono, lignina y taninos, así como componentes secundarios como ácidos de hidratos de carbono, ácidos carboxílicos, aromáticos y resinas. Su objetivo es obtener materiales innovadores, con especial atención a la construcción ecológica como posible caso de negocio. El REHAP pretende reducir significativamente el uso de recursos fósiles hasta un 100 % y lograr una reducción del consumo de energía y de las emisiones de dióxido de carbono superior al 30 %.

Objetivo

Europe's position in the production of biochemicals from biomass and by-products is limited to a few compounds, while their demand is among the largest in the world. However, Europe has a lot of world leader chemical companies. On the other hand, lignocellulosic waste constitutes one of the most abundant resources without competing with food chain.
REHAP’s 16 partners aim at revalorizing agricultural (wheat straw) and forestry (bark) waste through its recovery, and primary (sugars, lignin, tannins) and secondary (sugar acids, carboxylic acids, aromatics and resins) processing to turn them into novel materials, and considering Green Building as business case. The project will provide reductions in utilization of fossil resources of 80-100%, and energy utilization and CO2 emissions above 30%.
Specifically, building blocks (1,4 and 2,3-Butanediol, estherpolyols), materials (PUs, phenolic resins, modified hydrolysis lignin) and products (wooden boards, insulation foams, cement, adhesive) will be obtained:
• Isolation of tannins and carbohydrates from forestry waste to turn them into bio-phenolic resins for wooden panels and isocyanate-free polyurethanes (PU) for insulating foams, respectively.
• Isolation of lignin and carbohydrates from agricultural waste to turn them into bio-phenolic resins for wooden panels and biosuperplasticizers for cement, and estherpolyol PU for adhesives, respectively.
• Fire retardant lignin and sugar-based additives will be also developed.
Developed processing technologies (chemo/thermo/enzymatic and fermentation) will be optimized at pilot scale (TRL6-7) for further exploitation and replication of results. All products will be integrated in a prototype to demonstrate industrial applicability into the Green Construction sector.
Throughout the project, Life Cycle and Cost Assessment, market analysis, business plan, waste management strategy and measures for future standardization will be implemented using a systemic perspective approach.

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-IND-CE-2016-17

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-SPIRE-2016

Régimen de financiación

IA - Innovation action

Coordinador

FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 380 145,00
Dirección
PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE GIPUZKOA, PASEO MIKELETEGI 2
20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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Noreste País Vasco Gipuzkoa
Tipo de actividad
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Coste total
€ 1 380 145,00

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