Biorizon Advanced Technologies for Industry
Biorizon

Netherlands: North Brabant

Overview

Industry driven Shared Research Center, focusing on technology development for the production of functionalized biobased aromatics for performance materials, chemicals & coatings

Biorizon is anticipating the expected growing shortage of aromatics from the petrochemical industry and the widely shared ambition to green the chemical industry.

Our mission is to enable commercial production of bio-aromatics by 2025. In order to achieve this we adopt a multi-disciplinary approach that brings together the entire value chain: in R&D (institutions, universities), global leaders in supply of feedstocks (upstream), chemical conversion, equipment manufacturing (midstream), chemical industry, end-users and brand owners (down-stream). We connect with multi-nationals as well as SME companies.

Biorizon is a cross-border initiative between TNO, VITO, ECN and the Green Chemistry Campus and is part of Biobased Delta. Biorizon is located at the Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands, at the heart of… Shared Research Center Biorizon has state-of-the-art facilities at its disposal. The facilities can be found at the following locations:

Green Chemistry Campus - Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands

TNO - Delft, The Netherlands

VITO - Mol, Flanders, Belgium

ECN - Petten, The Netherlands

 

Specifically the laboratories of the TNO Biorizon activities are situated in Delft and at the Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom and offer capacity for the lab- and bench-scale process development.

Throughout the last years, TNO has invested in several pilot units at TRL 4/5 for the demonstration of individual process steps in the end-to-end process from biomass to aromatics: a biphasic reactor for the conversion of hemicellulose to furfural, a condensation reactor for the preparation of furfuryl-hydrazones, a Diels-Alder reactor  for production of the targeted bio-aromatic compounds.

In specific the following TNO equipment is available:

Bi-phasic reactor

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Theoretical assessment of feasibility of chemical pathways

Experimental validation of chemistry

Process modelling, design & development

Experimental validation of process technology (reaction & separation)

Scale-up studies at TRL 4-5

Consortium building & networking

Techno-economic viability assessments

Life Cycle Analysis

 

Types of interaction with Biorizon:

Community participation: Exclusive discussion group, roadmap updates, high-level results and invitations to (inter)national events.
Shared R&D program participation: Pre-competitive R&D within a collaborative program with a duration of 2-4 years.
Sponsored R&D project: Pre-competitive linear development; small projects with predefined scope/time/budget.
Commissioned R&D project: Exclusive bilateral project with pre-defined scope/time/budget.

Web-link for services

http://www.biorizon.eu/join-us
http://www.biorizon.eu/community/members

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Sectors
Chemicals - Environment
Technology
Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - Biobased chemicals