Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB
We are working on processes enabling a sustainable supply of renewable and CO2-neutral platform chemicals for the chemical industry of the future.
With this mission in mind, we are primarily pursuing a drop-in‑approach: We search for new process routes to synthesize important platform chemicals from renewable raw materials and energy, thus replacing conventional fossil-based production pathways and tapping the huge potential of renewable feedstock for the chemical industry.
In this context, methanol and ammonia (derived from hydrogen and CO2 or nitrogen, respectively) represent important intermediate products that can be further converted via chemical or biotechnological processes into platform chemicals, monomers, organic acids, amino acids or even high-value fine chemicals or other products.