Achema - Fraunhofer IGB

Frankfurt am Main / June 10, 2024 - June 14, 2024

Achema | Trade fair

World Forum for the Process Industries

Hall 6.0, Booth D49

We are at the joint stand of the Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance

The Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance presents current research activities of the participating institutes in the following key areas:

Accelerating green chemistry
Digitizing chemical processes
Empowering circularity
Enhancing safety
Facilitating scale-up
Improving efficiency

We look forward to your visit in Hall 6.0, Stand D49.

Accelerating Green Chemistry: Biobased products from residual and waste materials

Insect biorefinery: Biobased products from organic waste

In the insect biorefinery, organic residues and waste materials are converted into high-quality chemical products. This is made possible by the insect larvae of the black soldier fly, which are fed with the waste. Their biomass is separated into the fractions proteins, fats and chitin in order to produce chemical products such as adhesives and coatings, lubricants and cleaning agents as well as plant fertilizers.

Biobased polymers from residual and waste streams

We also present biobased polymers produced from waste streams, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates PHA, a polyester produced in bacteria from municipal wastewater, and a polymer made from malic acid, which can be produced with fungi from food industry waste streams.

Insect biorefinery: Utilization of chitin, fats and proteins

Facilitating Scale-up: Scaling up and piloting new processes for a sustainable bioeconomy

The utilization of biogenic resources is a key technology for a sustainable chemical industry, pilot plants essential for the commercialization of new products.

Fraunhofer CBP offers pilot plants and modular process capacities and a wide variety of processing and reprocessing techniques. We thus support start-ups and SMEs not only with the technical further development of chemical and biotechnological processes, but also with the provision of larger sample quantities for application research or with process data for studies on the feasibility of a manufacturing process.

Biomass fractionation
Chemical and biotechnological conversion processes
Downstream processing
Production of sample quantities on a kilogram scale

Scaling and piloting of new processes for chemistry and biotechnology

Enhancing safety: Alternatives to PFAS

Chitosan-based hydrophobic finishing of textiles

Chitosan is already used in the textile industry as a biobased and environmentally friendly sizing agent. Due to its chemical structure with binding sites for additional functionalities, the renewable biopolymer is also suitable for sustainable finishing and fluorine-free hydrophobic finishing of cotton, polyester and blended fabrics. We have also already been able to adapt the finishing to paper and cardboard.

Replacement of fluoroelastomers with new materials and coatings

With our expertise in polymers, surfaces and coating technologies, we offer customers solutions that can be implemented quickly for the substitution of PFAS. Examples include hydrophobic coatings with non-stick plasma polymers as well as friction-reducing and chemical-resistant coatings (parylene, hydrocarbon/silicon organic-based plasma coatings).

Fluoropolymer-free anti-ice film coating

Plasma coatings, embossed or printed structures can be used to protect surfaces from ice formation. Examples of applications include protecting aircraft wings or wind turbine rotor blades from icing. Fraunhofer IGB has also developed an easy-to-apply self-adhesive anti-icing film.

Lectures by IGB experts at the ACHEMA Congress

We cordially invite you to the presentations of our Fraunhofer experts!

"Combining chemistry and biotechnology for the production of CO₂-based chemicals – Chances and risks"

Dr. Christine Rasche

Thursday, June 13, 2024, 14:30 – 15:00 | further information

"Fungi Future Economics, FUFUECO"
Dipl.-Agr.-Biol. Sabine Krieg MBA

Thursday, June 13, 2024, 17:05 – 17:15 | further information

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