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Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities
in the sugar industry
Arvind Chudasama
[email protected]
Biobased products: Challenges and opportunities
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Introduction
Definitions
Market potential
Policy issues
Challenges
Exploring, exploiting and commercialising
Summary & conclusions
New dawn
• “In few years, sugar will be the new oil”.
Steen Riisgaard, CEO, Novozymes
• A transition towards renewable bio-based feedstocks is
vital for the production of chemicals, materials, fuels and
energy to lessen dependence on fossil energy and
achieve climate change goals. For companies like British
Sugar these market changes will lead to further
opportunities, bringing together scientific skills, process
engineering and marketing.”
Mark Carr, Chief Executive, British Sugar Group
Biorefinery processess as a foundation for
a biobased economy
Source: Langveld &
Sanders (2010) in The
Biobased Economy
(Earthscan)
Market prices vs market volumes of
biobased products
Source: Langveld & Sanders
(2010) in The Biobased
Economy (Earthscan)
Definitions
Definition
Biorefinery is the co-production of a
spectrum of bio-based products (food,
feed, materials, chemicals) and energy
(fuels, power, heat) from biomass
[IEA Bioenergy Task 42].
Comparison of the basic principles of a petroleum refinery
and biorefinery
Refinery
Biorefinery
Biofuels
Fuels
Petroleum
Biomass
Chemicals
Biobased
products
Definitions
Biotechnology
"The application of scientific and engineering principles to the
processing of materials by biological agents". OECD
Industrial (white) biotechnology
Application of biotechnology for the processing and production of bioenergy
and biobased products (chemicals and materials).
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Red biotechnology is applied to medical processes.
Green biotechnology is applied to agriculture.
Blue biotechnology is applied to processes in marine and aquatic environments,
(such as controlling water-borne diseases).
Sugar derived platform chemicals
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1,4-succinic, fumaric and malic acids
2,5-furan dicarboxylic acid
3-hydroxy propionic acid
aspartic acid
glucaric acid
glutamic acid
itaconic acid
levulinic acid
3-hydroxybutyrolactone
glycerol
sorbitol
xylitol/arabinitol
(Source T. Werpy and G. Peterson (Eds 2004, DOE)
Market development – emerging applications for
biosuccinic acid
Biorefinery concept
Integrated biorefinery approach
Source: Langveld &
Sanders (2010) in The
Biobased Economy
(Earthscan)
Market potential of biochemicals
Applications and market potential
Chemical sales per segment 2007
100% = 1383 billion Euros [U$1914 billion]
Consumer
chemicals,
14.50%
Speciality
chemicals,
22.40%
Active pharma
ingredients,
3.90%
Base
chemicals,
59.20%
Source: CEFIC Facts & Figures January 2009. Market study of FESTEL CAPITAL from May 2009
Applications and market potential
Sales of biobased products in 2007 was 48 billion Euros, 3.5% market share
Biotech sales* per segment 2007
100% = 48 billion Euro
Active pharma
ingredients
21%
Consumer chemicals
23%
Base chemicals
25%
Speciality chemicals
31%
* Sales of chemical products made by biotechnological processes and not chemical processes
Source: CEFIC Facts & Figures January 2009. Market study of FESTEL CAPITAL from May 2009
Applications and market potential
Chemical sales per segment 2012
100% = 1748 billion Euros [U$2419 billion]
Active pharma
ingredients
5.3%
Consumer
chemicals
15.8%
Base chemicals
55.3%
Speciality
chemicals
23.7%
Source: CEFIC Facts & Figures January 2009. Market study of FESTEL CAPITAL from May 2009
Applications and market potential
Sales of biobased products in 2012 is projected to be 135 billion Euros, 7.7% market share
Biotech sales* per segment 2012
100% = 135 billion Euros
Active pharma
ingredients
23%
Base chemicals
25%
Consumer
chemicals
24%
Speciality
chemicals
28%
* Sales of chemical products made by biotechnological processes and not chemical processes
Source: CEFIC Facts & Figures January 2009. Market study of FESTEL CAPITAL from May 2009
Share of biobased materials and
chemical capacity by region
Source: Lux Research
Policy matters
Policy drivers
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Agriculture?
Rural Development?
Climate change?
Environmental protection?
Technology and Industrial development?
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Labelling of biobased products launched by
USDA
Not insurmountable challenges
Challenges
Barriers to success
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Facilities and funding for projects
Innovation and knowledge transfer
Skills
Public and commercial perception and
awareness
• Connectivity and collaboration
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Fermentation and biocatalysis equipment up to 10 m3 scale
Green chemistry equipment up to 10 m3 scale
Upstream and downstream processing equipment
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Plant fractionation
Biomass pretreatment: steam explosion, acid/base hydrolysis
Physical separation: filtration, centrifugation
Evaporation
Crystallization
Ion exchange and electrodialysis
Membrane separation: microfiltration, ultrafiltration
Quality R&D institutions needed
Collaborative structures important
Exploring, exploiting and commercialising
Sugarcane to bioplastic : Braskem
Biorefining, reality at the agroindustrial
complex at Pomacle, France
Summary & conclusions
Biorefining