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LIPES

Life Integrated Process for the Enzymatic Splitting of triglycerides

Project details

Type of project
Innovation Action - Demonstration
Project focus
Bio-based chemicals
Feedstock origin
Agri-food waste
Feedstock type
Food industry sidestreams
Project period
1 September 2016 - 31 December 2021
Status
Completed
CBE JU Contribution
€ 4 295 153,67
Call identifier
H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-02

Summary

LIPES is dedicated to bringing the first market replication of greener and healthier fatty acids. The objective is to create high purity bio-based intermediates and end products from vegetable oils and fats.

The LIPES approach replaces current thermal hydrolysis and saponification production routes, instead using a new enzyme-based, environmentally friendly alternative.

Using this approach will make the process far more resource efficient, saving at least 45% water, 70% enzymes and 80% energy over current approaches.

  • To perform the scale-up to pre-industrial level of a new environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional and current splitting routes of triglyceride producing free fatty acids and glycerol, thus at a lower variable and investment costs and in very resource-efficient way with a minimum saving of 45% water consumption, 70% of enzymes and 80% of energetic consumption
  • To enzymatically produce selected commercially important fatty acids at an overall lower variable cost than the current processes and to showcase their use as intermediates in a wider range of application.
  • To contribute to reaching the EC goals on waste reduction by elaborating and evaluating new value chains for making use of agricultural co-products

  • Strengthen the competitiveness of EU oleo-chemicals industry in a context of growing competition with Asian bio-based products through a cost effective process leading to high performance products
  • Sustainable and innovative integrated new process leading to high quality products along the whole value chain
  • Competitive biotech pathway as compared to the conventional processes
  • Selection of enzyme(s) selective for vegetable oil hydrolysis
  • Competitive biotech process as compared to the conventional processes
  • Efficient enzyme for enzymatic splitting of oils
  • New low trans FA for food application High quality FA
  • New grade of dimer acids (C36 and C44)
  • New grade of Co-polyesters

LIPES project explanation

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Project coordination

  • OLEON NV Ertvelde, Belgium

Consortium

  • ENVALIOR Sittard, Netherlands
  • DSM MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER BV Geleen, Netherlands
  • BIOCATALYSTS LIMITED Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • STC-ENGINEERING GMBH WALDENBURG, Germany
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN Berlin, Germany
  • OLEON GMBH Emmerich Am Rhein, Germany
  • OLEON Venette, France
  • DSM ADVANCED POLYESTERS EMMEN BV GELEEN, Netherlands