PULP2VALUE
Processing Underutilised Low value sugarbeet Pulp into VALUE added products (PULP2VALUE)
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 July 2015 - 30 June 2019
- Status
- Completed
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 6 589 180,00
- Call identifier
- H2020-BBI-PPP-2014-1
Summary
In 2014, Europe produced around 13 million tonnes of sugar beet pulp each year. Most of this pulp finds its way into low-value feed, fertiliser or it is used for creating green fuel gas.
By using multiple extraction techniques, PULP2VALUE extended the high-value products extracted from sugar beet sidestreams, isolating microcellulose fibres (MCF), arabinose, and galacturonic acid.
The project demonstrated an integrated and cost-effective cascading biorefinery system to refine sugar beet pulp and identified applications for approximately 65% of its mass in high-value markets, increasing its current value by as much as 20 to 50 times.
Consortium map
Project coordination
- KONINKLIJKE COOPERATIE COSUN UA Breda, Netherlands
Consortium
- REFRESCO GERBER UK LIMITED BRIDGWATER, United Kingdom
- NOVA-INSTITUT FUR POLITISCHE UND OKOLOGISCHE INNOVATION GMBH HURTH, Germany
- ORINEO BVBA Erps-Kwerps, Belgium
- BIO BASE EUROPE PILOT PLANT VZW DESTELDONK GENT, Belgium
- COSUN BEET COMPANY - BIOBASED EXPERTS BV DINTELOORD, Netherlands
- WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY Wageningen, Netherlands
- STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH Wageningen, Netherlands
