GoodByO

Summary

Manufacturing is the leading CO₂ emission industry in Europe. It needs disruptive solutions to reduce emissions, such as leveraging biogenic organic residues and CO₂-based feedstocks. 

GoodByO aims to create a new generation biorefinery using food waste, biogenic CO₂, and bioprocess wastewaters to produce bio-based products. The project will implement this visionary concept at the ChainCraft BV bio-plant by making use of its gaseous and liquid side-streams as sustainable zero-cost feedstocks. By exploiting the metabolic diversity of microbial catalysts, GoodByO will develop and validated at TRL5 four different microbial factories . The project will also design an in silico renewable energy system capable of sustaining the fluctuating demand of the integrated biorefinery over time, by adopting biomethanation process as grid-balancing system. GoodByO will produce bio-octanoic acid, bio-hexanol, carotenoids, microbial proteins and organic fertilisers meeting market requirements at cost-competitive selling price with benchmarks. This will encourage end-user companies to replace fossil- and palm-oil based products with bio-based ones. The successful scale-up of GoodByO processes and the market penetration will strongly increase EU global leadership in the manufacturing -industry while advancing the biotechnology sectors using CO₂ too.