C2C4Oxygenate — Devel­op­ment of a new Down­stream Pro­cess Chain of Bio­gen­ic Raw Mater­i­als to C2 and C4-Oxygenates

Inten­tion:

Pro­duc­tion of import­ant chem­ic­al build­ing blocks from ligno­cel­lu­losic raw mater­i­als. Mod­el sub­strates with high import­ance for the chem­ic­al industry are the C4 build­ing blocks 2,3‑butanediol, methyl ethyl ketone and the C2 build­ing block acet­ic acid. Start­ing products of fer­ment­at­ive pro­duc­tion are mater­i­al and resid­ual mater­i­al flows of the Sequen­tial Enzymat­ic Hydro­lys­is (SEH).

R&D‑Partners:
Wack­er Chemie AG, Fraunhofer IGB, TU Munich – Chair of Feed­stock and Energy Tech­no­logy, TU München – Chair of Pro­cess Engin­eer­ing, Ulm Uni­ver­sity — Insti­tute of Micro­bi­o­logy and Bio­tech­no­logy, TU Darm­stadt – Ernst Berl-Insti­tute for Tech­nic­al and Mar­co­molecu­lar Chemistry 

Fund­ing:
BMBF / PtJ

Dur­a­tion:
01.01.2008 – 31.12.2011