LiBiPlUs
Lignocellulose Biorefinement by Plasma-Ultrasonic-Processing
Duration from 1.1.2025 – 31.12.2027, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the program “Bioeconomy International” under contract number (FKZ) 031B1585.
The aim is to increase the value of organic materials as raw materials through novel and advanced technologies in order to better utilize the ecological and economic potential of biogenic resources, particularly plant residues. Specifically, a new method is to be developed for extracting cellulose from lignocellulose (LC), for example, for fibers or microcrystalline cellulose (MCC).
Therefore, the biological material needs to be disintegrated more efficiently than currently possible and also so far unusable material be made available. The individual characteristics of both methods can be tuned to each other by adjusting the different operating parameters for the ultrasound and plasma sources. This potential has already been demonstrated, for instance, in the more efficient disintegration of biomass for biogas production. The technology will ultimately be integrated into a production process that has already been established by the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) as a partner for extracting MCC from raw biomass. The goal of introducing the new method is to shorten the serial physical-chemical treatment chain and thus make it more efficient than conventional processing.
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