EU project: applications for lignocellulosic biomass

For decades, biorefinery of lignocellulosic biomass into its major components has focussed on the extraction of cellulose. During the four-year BIOCORE-project, several European research institutes and companies including Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research have bundled their expertise and identified possibilities to extract other components, such as lignin and hemicellulose, from this type of biomass. These components can be used for a variety of interesting biobased products.
BIOCORE has resulted in successful demonstration of applications in bulk chemicals, polymers, specialty molecules and 2G biofuels (News release Wageningen UR, 21 October 2014).
Click here for the news release.
Click here for the complete end report of BIOCORE (889 kB).

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