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Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities

Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities. in the sugar industry. Arvind Chudasama arvind.chudasama@informa.com. Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities. Introduction Definitions Market potential Policy issues Challenges Exploring, exploiting and commercialising

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Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities

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  1. Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities in the sugar industry Arvind Chudasama arvind.chudasama@informa.com

  2. Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities • Introduction • Definitions • Market potential • Policy issues • Challenges • Exploring, exploiting and commercialising • Summary & conclusions

  3. New dawn • “In few years, sugar will be the new oil”. Steen Riisgaard, CEO, Novozymes • A transition towards renewable bio-based feedstocks is vital for the production of chemicals, materials, fuels and energy to lessen dependence on fossil energy and achieve climate change goals. For companies like British Sugar these market changes will lead to further opportunities, bringing together scientific skills, process engineering and marketing.” Mark Carr, Chief Executive, British Sugar Group

  4. Biorefinery processess as a foundation fora biobased economy Source: Langveld & Sanders (2010) in The Biobased Economy (Earthscan)

  5. Market prices vs market volumes of biobased products Source: Langveld & Sanders (2010) in The Biobased Economy (Earthscan)

  6. Definitions

  7. Definition Biorefinery is the co-production of a spectrum of bio-based products (food, feed, materials, chemicals) and energy (fuels, power, heat) from biomass [IEA Bioenergy Task 42].

  8. Comparison of the basic principles of a petroleum refinery and biorefinery Refinery Biorefinery Biofuels Fuels Petroleum Biomass Biobased products Chemicals

  9. Definitions Biotechnology "The application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents".  OECD Industrial (white) biotechnology Application of biotechnology for the processing and production of bioenergy and biobased products (chemicals and materials). • Red biotechnology is applied to medical processes. • Green biotechnology is applied to agriculture. • Blue biotechnology is applied to processes in marine and aquatic environments, (such as controlling water-borne diseases).

  10. Sugar derived platform chemicals • 1,4-succinic, fumaric and malic acids • 2,5-furan dicarboxylic acid • 3-hydroxy propionic acid • aspartic acid • glucaric acid • glutamic acid • itaconic acid • levulinic acid • 3-hydroxybutyrolactone • glycerol • sorbitol • xylitol/arabinitol (Source T. Werpy and G. Peterson (Eds 2004, DOE)

  11. Market development – emerging applications forbiosuccinic acid

  12. Biorefinery concept

  13. Integrated biorefinery approach Source: Langveld & Sanders (2010) in The Biobased Economy (Earthscan)

  14. Market potential of biochemicals

  15. Applications and market potential Chemical sales per segment 2007 100% = 1383 billion Euros [U$1914 billion]

  16. Applications and market potential Sales of biobased products in 2007 was 48 billion Euros, 3.5% market share * Sales of chemical products made by biotechnological processes and not chemical processes Source: CEFIC Facts & Figures January 2009. Market study of FESTEL CAPITAL from May 2009

  17. Applications and market potential Source: CEFIC Facts & Figures January 2009. Market study of FESTEL CAPITAL from May 2009

  18. Applications and market potential Sales of biobased products in 2012 is projected to be 135 billion Euros, 7.7% market share * Sales of chemical products made by biotechnological processes and not chemical processes Source: CEFIC Facts & Figures January 2009. Market study of FESTEL CAPITAL from May 2009

  19. Share of biobased materials and chemical capacity by region Source: Lux Research

  20. Policy matters

  21. Policy drivers • Agriculture? • Rural Development? • Climate change? • Environmental protection? • Technology and Industrial development? • ............?

  22. Labelling of biobased products launched by USDA

  23. Not insurmountable challenges

  24. Challenges

  25. Barriers to success • Facilities and funding for projects • Innovation and knowledge transfer • Skills • Public and commercial perception and awareness • Connectivity and collaboration

  26. Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant Fermentation and biocatalysis equipment up to 10 m3scale Green chemistry equipment up to 10 m3scale Upstream and downstream processing equipment • Plant fractionation • Biomass pretreatment: steam explosion, acid/base hydrolysis • Physical separation: filtration, centrifugation • Evaporation • Crystallization • Ion exchange and electrodialysis • Membrane separation: microfiltration, ultrafiltration

  27. Quality R&D institutions needed

  28. Collaborative structures important

  29. Exploring, exploiting and commercialising

  30. Sugarcane to bioplastic : Braskem

  31. Biorefining, reality at the agroindustrialcomplex at Pomacle, France

  32. Summary & conclusions

  33. Biorefining

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