Bio4PURConti
The 10-partner consortium
spanning 7 countries, brings together leading industrial and academic organisations
Covestro Deutschland AG
Role:
Coordinator. Leads strain development and process development, hosts early continuous fermentation work, intermediate-to-aniline conversion and coordinates the project.
Fibenol Imavere OU
Role:
Supplies second-generation, wood-based sugars and supports feedstock characterisation and testing.
University of Stuttgart
Role:
Bioreactor modelling and computational fluid dynamics for scale-up, with support to strain development.
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant VZW
Role:
Scale-up and demonstration at pilot and semi-industrial scale, 150 litres and 1.5 cubic metres.
ZEDO, Dortmund e.V.
Role:
Leads advanced real-time analytics and process control.
NTNU
Role:
Process control structure, monitoring and real-time optimisation.
Axel'One
Role:
Advanced analytics and sensor development for the continuous process.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Role:
Leads the Safe and Sustainable by Design assessment and life cycle analysis.
CLIB, Cluster Industrial Biotechnology
Role:
Leads exploitation, the Batch2Conti toolbox and policy work, and supports clustering.
AEIMIS
Role:
Leads communication and dissemination, including this website.