CircuZ
Circular biobased raw materials for large-scale production of thermoset biopolymer resins and their application in recyclable products with a negative CO2 footprint.
Uniresearch will contribute to CircuZ with its knowledge on the MOOI-programme, EZK funding in general and its wide experience in project management, dissemination and exploitation. In CircuZ, Uniresearch is responsible for the administrative and financial project management, the communication and dissemination activities and performs the techno-economic analyses.
CircuZ aims to ensure the availability of biobased raw materials for the large-scale production of thermoset bioresins with a competitive price and the smallest possible CO2 footprint by:
– Optimising processes for bio-based raw materials, so that the produced raw materials are of sufficient quality with a minimal cost price and CO2 footprint.
– Investigating what suitable and widely available organic by-products or residual flows are as sources for the biobased-raw materials, with as requirement that there is no competition with, for example, food supply.
– Using the biobased raw materials to make thermoset bioresins that have an even (much) more favorable CO2 footprint and cost price than the current thermoset bioresins that are made from very pure bio raw materials.
– Developing recycling processes for end products containing these bioresins as well as waste streams from production, making recycling (in addition to the use of virgin materials) an important second source of raw materials.
The project consortium consists of 8 partners from 3 countries.