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Kees van der Wiele
“Our general impression is that CatchBio is an excellent and well managed programme.” Thus chairman dr. Kees van der Wiele summarizes the recent CatchBio mid-tem review. “It shows what catalysis might contribute to sustainable production in chemistry. It also shows the beneficial effects of close interaction between academia and industry.”
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Joe Bozell
Lignin is cheap and abundant. At the same time it is molecularly so heterogeneous, that researchers tend to regard conversion into useful intermediate products as a mission impossible. “Don't look at lignin in the plant, look at the supply of pretreated material”, says professor Joseph Bozell, lecturer at the CatchBio Open symposium.
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Atsushi Fukuoka
The conversion of lignocellulose into renewable chemicals by heterogeneous catalysis: this is the field of research carried out by professor Atsushi Fukuoka and his group, director of the Catalysis Research Center of Hokkaido University in Japan. In 2005, he and his colleagues reached one of the most important breakthroughs in the field so far, but he would like to add some more. On 29 September Fukuoka spoke at the CatchBio Open symposium.
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Ed de Jong and Avantium
CatchBio and Avantium had the same timing with their attention for biomass conversion, so participation seemed only logical. At the moment, Avantium's Ed De Jong sees a lot of benefits in this decision, but also still awaits a crucial step to be made.
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Xander Nijhuis
“As a chemical technologist, I like to bridge the gap between catalysis and reactor engineering”, Xander Nijhuis, active in reactor engineering at Eindhoven Technical University points out. No wonder the collaboration in CatchBio feels like his natural habitat: one of his projects aims to design fuel cells that run on two sugar cubes an hour to power a laptop.
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Two CatchBio researchers promoted to assistant professor
Dr. Stefania Grecea and Dr. Evgeny Pidko, both from a CatchBio project, have been appointed as assistant professor.
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Registration for CatchBio Progress Meeting now open
Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 January the third CatchBio Progress Meeting takes place in Nunspeet. During this annual meeting CatchBio researchers will report to all academic and industrial cluster members about the progress of their research by lectures and poster presentations. This meeting involves dinner, hotel accommodation and lunch. The meeting has a confidential character and can be attended by consortium members only. Deadline for registration is 15 December 2011!
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Call TA-Biomass open untill 12 Jan.
The NWO-ACTS call for TA-Biomass proposals is now open for applications. This Technology Area for Sustainable Chemistry, or TASC, is specfifically focussed on 'Eco-efficient Use of Biomass for Bulk and Fine Chemicals Production'.
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Neste Oil starts renewable diesel plant
Neste Oil has successfully started up Europe's largest renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Production of NExBTL renewable diesel at the new plant will be ramped up on a phased basis.
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SABIC IP opens Green Chemistry Campus
SABIC Innovative Plastics has opened a Green Chemistry Campus on 29 September, the day of the CatchBio symposium.
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Market study on bio-based plastics
There is a need of a comprehensive, solid and worldwide market study in bio-based plastics. Many stakeholders require reliable and detailed information. Now a full concept for a multi-stakeholder market study has been developed, in which businesses can still participate. DSM has already subscribed and will join the Advisory Board. Subscription will close on 31 October.
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SABIC wins VNCI Responsible Care award
CatchBio partner SABIC has won the VNCI Responsible Care award for improving the safe transport of hazardous materials.
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Pyrolysis turns biomass into chemical feedstock
"Solar, wind, water and geothermal heat are all sources for renewable energy, whereas biomass is the only source for renewable chemicals. Feedstocks that are extracted from petroleum by the chemical industry can also be extracted from biomass. The change from oil- to biorefining is near", says Paul de Wild of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) in the thesis on his promotion research. He received his PhD on 15 July 2011.
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Introducing: Vitaly Ordomskiy
Postdoc Vitaly Ordomskiy from Eindhoven University of Technology introduces himself. "Mine is a many-sided project with possibilities to work on the catalytic and engineering development of a continuous process for transformation of biomass into valuable products."
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Introducing: Yuehu Wang
PhD Yuehu Wang from University of Groningen introduce himself. "Fitness, football and Chinese chess are my best hobbies."
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Introducing: Selvedin Telalovic
Selvedin Telalovic, postdoc at Utrecht University, introduces himself. "The biggest challenge is to develop an efficient and at the same time stable heterogeneous catalyst that can also be reused."
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Introducing: Burcu Güvenatam
PhD Burcu Güvenatam from Eindhoven University of Technology introduces herself. "At the end of this project, I’m planning to be the subject matter expert in this domain."
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Results
The CatchBio programme has delivered a range of scientific publications. See them all
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