Projet ZEOBIOCHEM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The EU's long-term strategy, ‘A Clean Planet for All’, is underpinned by a bioeconomy, with biorefineries playing an important role. Aiming to contribute to this strategy, the ZEOBIOCHEM project will develop novel functionalised hierarchical zeolites for highly-efficient biorefinery catalysis, supporting the EU’s grand vision to achieve a climate neutral Europe by 2050. The project will be carried out by an internationally-leading multidisciplinary consortium with a complementary expertise in materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, process intensification, biomass conversion and life cycle sustainability assessment. The research and innovation (R&I) activities will be performed collaboratively beyond the state-of-the-art by world-leading groups in relevant fields from the UK, Spain, Denmark, Hungary, China, Japan and Thailand. These activities will be facilitated by the international and intersectoral staff exchanges involving 200+ person-months, to enable the development of the next-generation biorefinery based on highly-efficient zeolite catalysts. Specifically, the project will develop hierarchical zeolites with optimised functionality (Brønsted, Lewis acidity and/or noble metal catalysts) for the biorefinery cases, such as bio-oil and sugar platforms upgrading and green solvent synthesis. To deliver the project outputs successfully, multidisciplinary expertise is essential. Thus, a high-quality and cross-disciplinary knowledge sharing and networking activities between the project partners will be established to address the R&I activities. The project includes extensive training, knowledge transfer and networking activities which will (i) ensure the development of our researchers with multidisciplinary skills for the future innovation, (ii) enhance the career development of the participants and (iii) maximise the opportunity to establish new networks and strengthen the existing networks, towards the sustainable development of the ZEOBIOCHEM partnership.

Mots clés : hierarchical zeolites, catalysis, biorefinery, process intensification, life cycle assessment

Participants :
- University of Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 441600.0 €
- University of Alicante (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 110400.0 €
- Queen's University Belfast (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 138000.0 €
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Tsinghua University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Alp technologies ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 27600.0 €
- University of Pannonia (Hongrie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 64400.0 €
- East China University of Science and Technology (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Jilin University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Technical University of Denmark (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 82800.0 €
- Tianjin University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (Thaïlande) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Felso bacska tarozos szelpark korlatoit felelossegu tarsasag (Hongrie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 9200.0 €
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- The University of Tokyo (Japon) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €