{"id":25865,"date":"2015-05-07T03:12:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=25865"},"modified":"2018-02-15T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:57:37","slug":"new-tailor-made-biopolymers-produced-from-lignocellulosic-sugars-waste-for-highly-demanding-fire-resistant-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-tailor-made-biopolymers-produced-from-lignocellulosic-sugars-waste-for-highly-demanding-fire-resistant-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"New tailor-made biopolymers produced from lignocellulosic sugars waste for highly demanding fire-resistant applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BRIGIT aims to develop a cost-competitive and environmentally friendly process to produce biopolymers, polyhydroxy butyrate (PHB), polybutylene succinate (PBS), and their copolymers and blends from waste-derived lignocelullosic sugar feedstock liquor from the wood sulfite pulping process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fermentation process to produce PHB and succinic acid for the production of PBS will be carried out \u201cin-situ\u201d in\u00a0the spent sulfite liquor by means of a new fermentation technology without alteration of the composition of current lignosulfonates contained in the spent liquor.<\/p>\n<p>The main innovations in BRIGIT are the use of an existing sugar-rich waste stream from the production of cellulose and the process integration with the existing industrial operation. The use of non-sterile (if\u00a0possible) steps due to the production and selection of efficient microorganisms,\u00a0and optimized fermentation and downstream technology will\u00a0permit an overall reduction in resources consumption, in greenhouse\u00a0gas emissions, and a substantial reduction of operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from the obtained biopolymers, BRIGIT aims to develop biobased\u00a0composites for high-tech fire-resistant applications in the transportation\u00a0sector (such as in trucks and buses among others). The biocomposites\u00a0in combination with natural fabrics will be used to produce 3D sandwich panels, as an alternative to the current sandwich panels\u00a0made of thermoset resins reinforced with continuous glass fibres.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0new panels will be recyclable, lighter, and will be obtained by a continuous\u00a0compression moulding process in contrast to currently available\u00a0sandwich panels.<\/p>\n<p>Further information in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimplas.net\/sites\/default\/files\/pdfs\/proyectoseuropeos\/BRIGIT-newsletter-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">3rd BRIGIT newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIGIT aims to develop a cost-competitive and environmentally friendly process to produce biopolymers, polyhydroxy butyrate (PHB), polybutylene succinate (PBS), and their copolymers and blends from waste-derived lignocelullosic sugar feedstock liquor from the wood sulfite pulping process. The fermentation process to produce PHB and succinic acid for the production of PBS will be carried out \u201cin-situ\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[11215],"class_list":["post-25865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-aimplas-asociacion-de-investigacion-de-materiales-plasticos-y-conexas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25865"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=25865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}