UFZ EnergyDays 2016 - Sessions B2 and B3

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Industrial biotechnology concepts making use of renewable resources

Coordinators and chairpersons: Bruno Bühler , Sabine Kleinsteuber

Abstract:

This double session deals with biotechnological concepts allowing the use of renewable resources for material and energy production. Thereby, resources include sugars and plant oils (first generation), cellulose and lignin (second generation), as well as carbon dioxide and waste products in the sense of a circular economy as it is aimed at in future bioeconomy concepts. Biological and technical challenges and approaches based on hetero- as well as autotrophic organisms will be discussed.
The products themselves will also be a topic. Biotechnology-derived products have application potential in different sectors of industry and include energy carriers, bulk-, fine-, and specialty chemicals, and polymers as well as active substances and thus the pharma sector. The latter is less resource-intensive, but profits from novel active substances and their building blocks, which only can be produced via biotechnological means and respective resource utilization.
Thus, beside the dimensions economy (production of energy, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals) and environment / land use, the dimension society / health also comes into play – quite in the sense of an integrated bioeconomy.

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