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Mission
The growth of the human population requires a parallel growth in availability and diversity of materials and energy. In order to provide these in a sustainable manner and not only to rely on non-renewable fossil resources, the development of bio-based alternatives including novel options to recycle materials within our society is a key item on the agenda of national governments and multinational chemical industries.The B-Basic mission is to provide the chemical industry with an advanced set of tools and concepts by approaching Bio-based Sustainable Industrial Chemistry in a fully integrated manner, combining fucntional genomics, intensified bioprocess technology and feedstock scenarios.
The ambition level of B-Basic is high. The on-going genomics revolution will be exploited in the B-Basic initiative, leading to major shifts in typical performance parameters for the chemical industry, such as outlined in the Figure below, to create a cleaner world, where high quality materials are produced in clean and efficient bio-based processes. The integrated and focused research and training programme of B-Basic will form an essential basis for these shifts to innovations for 2020 and beyond.
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Key Parameter
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1980
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2000
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2020 and beyond
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kg Waste / kg Product
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1
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0.1
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0.01
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| integrated bioprocess technology | none | laboratory scale | implementations |
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biocatalyst consumption |
10 | 1 | 0.1-0.01 |
| industrial integration of bio- and chemo-catalysis | absent | incidental | common practice |
| industrial use of cascade (bio)catalysis | hardly | emerging | common, large cascades (>5 steps) |
| Use of high Speed Technologies for process design | < 1 % | 10 % | 100 % |
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