The studies of the combination of thermochemical and biological processing of biomass, as undertaken by SYNFERON, involves fermentation of the produced syngas to biofuels by microorganisms producing alcohols or methane. This also includes the separation of alcohols from the fermentation product stream.
This is to be done using innovative process concepts such as biomimetic membranes and diabatic distillation.
Since the program scope includes a complete design involving energy efficient product separation, process analysis and optimization as well as comparison to competitive market technologies, modeling and separation process understanding will have to be developed for that purpose.
In brief, the technological focus and scientific objectives SYNFERONs WP3 are: 1) Use of biomimetic membranes; 2) development of diabatic distillation for gentle and cost-efficient purification of liquid biofuels, and 3) assisting with model development for an optimized proces design and comparison with existing technologies.
Co-workers:
DTU:
Jens Abildskov (Assoc. Professor); Jakob Kjøbsted Huusom (Assoc. Professor); Manolis Papadakis. (Ph.d. student)
Biosystemer Aps:
Børge Holm Christensen (owner of Biosystemer Aps);
Aquaporin A/S:
Sylvie Braekevelt (SYNFERON project leader at Aquaporin)
BioEnG:
H.N. Gavala
UNIEQUIP-DTU:
I.V. Skiadas