This document provides an overview of the BioBase4SME network which offers support services to SMEs in the bioeconomy sector. The network includes several partners that provide different types of technical services including scale up and proof of concept testing, life cycle assessment, social acceptance studies, market research, and access to pilot plants for anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis. SMEs can apply for innovation coupons to receive up to €4000 in funding to access these technical services. The webinar highlights several partner organizations and the types of support they provide.

1. Welcome to our BioBase4SME Webinar
Build up your capacity!
Introduction to
the BioBase4SME Network
Tanja Meyer
Project Coordinator

2. Tanja Meyer
Bio Base Europe Pilot
Plant
Roel Koevoets
REWIN
Bart Bonsall
tcbbResource
Agenda
Technical Innovation Coupons Services of BioBase4SME

3. Project partners
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Belgium)
AC3A (France)
CLIB2021 (Germany)
Flanders Bio-Based Valley (Belgium)
Materia Nova (Belgium)
NNFCC (United Kingdom)
REWIN (Netherlands)
TCBB Resource (Ireland)
University of York (United Kingdom)

4. BioBase4SME offers 3 different types of support

5. BioBase4SME: Bio-Innovation
Support for SMEs - YouTube

6. ...or a combination thereof.
Scale up and proof of concept
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Materia Nova
Social Acceptance
AC3A
Application Testing
REWIN
Market Research
NNFCC
Value Chain Assessment
NNFCC
Pilot equipment anaerobic digestion
tcbbResource
Business Plan Coaching
NNFCC
Application Testing for biofibers and bioplastics
REWIN
Pilot equipment for pyrolysis
tcbbResource
Each Innovation Coupons

7. Contact your regional bio innovation
agent. Information on the website!
SME friendly Application Procedure
High success rate
Short Evaluation Time
Easy Procedure
Innovation Coupons
Application Process
Open for SMEs and Start-ups
> 25 coupons available for SMEs
1,3 Mio € of grant to allocate
Last evaluation end of 10/18
Innovation

9. Application testing!
• REWIN WEST-BRABANT
Roel Koevoets
Bio Innovation Agent NL

10. • Natural Fiber Application Center
• Biopolymer Application Center
• Colorant Application Center
• Bio Innovation Garden
• Biorizon Lignin Application Center
Support for testing
€ 4000
100% covered

11. Natural Fiber Application Center

12. Biopolymer Application Center

13. Colorant Application Center

14. Bio Innovation Garden

15. Biorizon Lignin Application Center

17. Development Opportunities
in Anaerobic Digestion and Pyrolysis
• tcbbRRESOURCE
Bart Bonsall
Bio Innovation Agent Ireland

18. NUI Galway
Microbiology
Introduction
University of Limerick
Thermo-Chemical
Irish Research Centre
Scale Up: AD & Pyrolysis Pilot Plant
Engineering: Industrial Host
Business Support: Commercial / Policy
Galway
Limerick
Thurles

19. tcbb RESOURCE: Value Propositions
Energy/Nutrient/Product Recovery from Biowastes & Residues
Agri Food Processing, Forestry & Timber Products, Marine and Fish Processing, Municipal Waste & WWT
Nutra-
chem
Food & Feed
High Value
Bio-chemicals
& Bio-materials
Bulk
Bio-chemicals
& Bio-materials
Energy & Nutrient Recovery
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Waste
vs
Resource
Integration
=
Profit

20. Anaerobic Digestion: Converts Digestible Biomass to Biomethane
Flexible Energy Carrier Interchangeable with Natural Gas
Wide Range of Uses, Established Demand & Routes to Market
Feedstock Flexibility: Mixed
Microbiology + Reactor Config’s
‒ Excellent tech for waste/residue
‒ CSTR/Plug Flow/Dry Config: solids
‒ HRAD Configuration: WWT
Challenge = Cost of Supply
‒ Industry dependent on subsidies
Digestates as Organic Fertiliser
‒ Feedstock dependent
‒ Disposal Costs: rate-limiting
‒ Optimal Nutrient Recycling

21. Anaerobic Digestion: Facilities & Services
Facilities for Scale Up:
‒ Bench Scale (5-10L - NUIG)
‒ Pilot Scale CSTR (500L)
‒ Pilot Scale HRAD (1500L)
Process Analysis / Optimisation
‒ Biomethane Potential (BMP) tests
‒ Feedstock analysis
‒ Inhibition analysis
‒ Co-digestion strategies
‒ Pre-treatments (Physi-chem, Enzyme)
‒ Environmental parameter variations

22. Anaerobic Digestion: Work Programme Examples
Meat Processing WWT
‒ HRAD to Remove Organic Load from
Meat Processing Wastewaters
Meat Proc: Energy from Slurry
‒ De-watering technology: isolate solids
‒ Clarify liquors: N recovery & discharge
‒ Co digestion strategy: optimise energy
‒ N/P recovery: saleable fertiliser
VFA Biorefining Platform
‒ Platform for biochemicals/biomaterials
‒ Sourced from low cost wastes/residues

23. Pyrolysis :Thermal Depolymerisation in Low Oxygen Environment
Converts Biomass to Biochar + Syngas / Bio oil
Dry Feedstocks (counterpart to AD)
Feedstock + Process Parameters +
Reactor Config Outputs
‒ Low Temp = biochar
‒ High Temp = Syngas or oil
‒ Downstream: thermal cracking
(syngas), condensation (oil)
Output Valorisation
‒ Biochar: solid fuel, soil conditioner or
filter media (feedstock dependent)
‒ Syngas: conditioned for fuel
‒ Oil: Plastics/tyres = refined oil/wax
‒ Biomass oil = chemically complex

24. Facilities for Scale Up:
‒ Bench Scale (gram scale – UL)
‒ Continuous rotary kiln (50Kg/hr)
‒ Condensation (oil) or cracking (CHP)
Process Demo
‒ Feedstock Analysis
‒ Mass & Energy Balances
‒ Process Optimisation / Inhibitions
Emissions Tests
‒ NOx / SOx / CO / Particulates
‒ PAH’s & Persistent Org.Pollutants:
Subcontract with M-certified lab
Pyrolysis: Facilities & Services

25. Municipal (Industrial) WWT:
Energy from Sludge
‒ Demo sludge + forestry residues
‒ Addresses biohazard concerns
Municipal Waste Management:
Energy from Refuse Derived Fuels
‒ Demo: RDF
‒ Demo: organic fines + forestry residue
Moderate Scale Commercial
Deployments that Minimise
Environmental Impact
Pyrolysis: Work Programme Examples

26. Policymakers: Frameworks to
Support Community Schemes
‒ Feedstock Mobilisation
‒ Technology Development
‒ Infrastructure Deployment -
‒ Demand Stimulation
‒ Routes to Market
Pyrolysis: Work Programme Examples

28. Open access pilot facility
for bio-based products
• Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Tanja Meyer
Pilot Plant Service Provider

29. Multi-purpose pilot facility for bio-based
products and processes

30. A one stop shop… and beyond
Pretreatment
Biocatalysis Fermentation
Green
Chemistry
Downstream
Purification
Gas
Fermentation
CO2 – CO – H2
✓ Abundant feedstock
✓ GHG reuse and reduction
✓ Avoid overexploitation of natural resources

31. Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant

32. Services Process Development
• Concept design
• Fermentation
optimization
• Downstream processing
(DSP) development and
optimization
• Techno-economic
assessment (in-house
developed model)
Process
Development

33. Services Scale up • From 10 L to 15 m3 for
fermentation + DSP, up
to 50 m3 for other
processes
• Generation of samples
for application research
• Demonstration of
technology at larger
scale
• Pilot scale data (mass-
and energy-balances, …)
Scale Up

34. Services Custom Manufacturing
• 1,5 m3, 4,5 m3 and 15 m3
• Fermentation
• (Solvent-) based DSP
• Biocatalysis
Custom
Manufacturing

35. Team involved in BB4SME
Lieve Hoflack, PhD
Project Acquisition Manager
Sofia Vindevogel
Admin and HR Manager
Tanja Meyer
Project Coordinator
Luc Helsen
Controlling
Katrien Molders
Communication Manager
Hendrik Waegeman, PhD
Business Development Manager
Muriel Dewilde
Business Development Manager
Frederick De Bruyn
Business Development Manager
And many more engineers and operators

36. Takeways
Until 11/18 Coupons for technical & non-technical services
On 7/11/18 Final Networking Event with Horizon 2020 Superbio Project, Brussels
> 100 Pitches from SMEs and start-ups in front of investors
> 150 awesome international people
> 180 min of Matchmaking Session
< 5 min distance from the airport Brussels (Sheraton Hotel)
Webinars Non-technical services for coupons
https://youtu.be/JzRtnuA-8bY
Technical services for coupons
youtube video

37. Contact
Speakers for the technical services within BioBase4SME
Tanja Meyer
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
Roel Koevoets
REWIN
Bart Bonsall, Pádraic Ó hUiginn
tcbbResource
Roel.koevoets@rewin.nl
+31 (6) 226 639 34
bart.bonsall@tcbb.ie ; pohuiginn@tcbb.ie
+353 (0) 86 241 3081
tanja.meyer@bbeu.org
+32 (0) 9 335 70 01
tcbb RESOURCE; REWIN West-Brabant @BioBase4SME @BioeconomyIRL