LIPES
Life Integrated Process for the Enzymatic Splitting of triglycerides
Project details
- Type of project
- Innovation Action - Demonstration
- Project focus
- Bio-based chemicals
- Feedstock origin
- Agri-food waste
- Feedstock type
- Food industry sidestreams
- Project period
- 1 September 2016 - 31 December 2021
- Status
- Completed
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 4 295 153,67
- Call identifier
- H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-02
Summary
LIPES is dedicated to bringing the first market replication of greener and healthier fatty acids. The objective is to create high purity bio-based intermediates and end products from vegetable oils and fats.
The LIPES approach replaces current thermal hydrolysis and saponification production routes, instead using a new enzyme-based, environmentally friendly alternative.
Using this approach will make the process far more resource efficient, saving at least 45% water, 70% enzymes and 80% energy over current approaches.
- To perform the scale-up to pre-industrial level of a new environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional and current splitting routes of triglyceride producing free fatty acids and glycerol, thus at a lower variable and investment costs and in very resource-efficient way with a minimum saving of 45% water consumption, 70% of enzymes and 80% of energetic consumption
- To enzymatically produce selected commercially important fatty acids at an overall lower variable cost than the current processes and to showcase their use as intermediates in a wider range of application.
- To contribute to reaching the EC goals on waste reduction by elaborating and evaluating new value chains for making use of agricultural co-products
- Strengthen the competitiveness of EU oleo-chemicals industry in a context of growing competition with Asian bio-based products through a cost effective process leading to high performance products
- Sustainable and innovative integrated new process leading to high quality products along the whole value chain
- Competitive biotech pathway as compared to the conventional processes
- Selection of enzyme(s) selective for vegetable oil hydrolysis
- Competitive biotech process as compared to the conventional processes
- Efficient enzyme for enzymatic splitting of oils
- New low trans FA for food application High quality FA
- New grade of dimer acids (C36 and C44)
- New grade of Co-polyesters
LIPES project explanation
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Project coordination
- OLEON NV Ertvelde, Belgium
Consortium
- ENVALIOR Sittard, Netherlands
- DSM MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER BV Geleen, Netherlands
- BIOCATALYSTS LIMITED Cardiff, United Kingdom
- STC-ENGINEERING GMBH WALDENBURG, Germany
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN Berlin, Germany
- OLEON GMBH Emmerich Am Rhein, Germany
- OLEON Venette, France
- DSM ADVANCED POLYESTERS EMMEN BV GELEEN, Netherlands
