Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
An independent state-of-the-art pilot and demonstration facility for bio-based products and processes.
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) is an open innovation pilot and demonstration facility for process development, scale-up and custom manufacturing of biobased products and processes from lab to multi ton scale. BBEPP combines technologies (biomass pretreatment, biocatalysis, green chemistry, (gas)fermentation, biorefining and downstream purification) for advanced manufacturing of biobased products utilising a wide and flexible spectrum of modular unit operations. As such, a team of highly trained and experienced engineers and bioprocess technicians facilitates the translation of your biobased laboratory processes into viable industrial processes.
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| Name: | Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant |
| Country: | Belgium |
| City: | Ghent |
| Founded: | 2008 |
| Employees: | 115 |
| Webpage: | www.bbeu.org |
Departments
SERVICES
Process Development:
- Concept design
- Fermentation optimization
- Downstream processing (DSP) development and optimization
- Bench-top feasibility trials
Scale-up:
- Equipment available at different scales: bench-top, 100 kg, ton and multi ton scale
- Feasibility and optimization trials in scalable equipment
- First series compounds for application trials
- Demonstration of technology at larger scale
- Generation of pilot data incl. mass- and energy balances
Custom Manufacturing:
- Production of bulk bio-products up to multi ton scale
- 24/7 operations
- Quality control
- Food grade production
- ISO9001 and FSSC22000 certified
TECHNOLOGIES
Biomass Pretreatment:
- Mechanical, physico-chemical, solvent-based and enzymatic pretreatment of biomass feedstocks Reactors for chemical pretreatment (7–5,400l) and enzymatic hydrolysis (500–50,000l)
- Reaction vessels for slurries with high solids content
- Equipment for milling, thermal treatment, dewatering and concentration
Biocatalysis:
- Single enzyme or whole cell biocatalyst systems
- Immobilization of enzymes and whole cells
- Aqueous and solvent based reactions
- Enzyme or whole cell biocatalyst production through bacterial, yeast or fungal fermentation
Fermentation:
- Batch, fed-batch, chemostat
- Bacteria, yeast, fungi
- Aerobic (7-15.000l) and anaerobic (7-5400l) fermentations
- Ex proof fermentations
- Scales: from shake flask to 2x15m3
Gas fermentation:
- High pressure 10L gas fermenter
- Auxiliary equipment for strict anaerobe cultivation and gas premixing
- Gaseous feedstocks: industrial off-gas, syngas, methane…
Other: Pilots4U Database and Network
In the period 2017-2019 the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant was lead partner of the BBI-JU project Pilots4U.
Aim
To help innovators, companies and research institutions operating in the bio-economy sector to gain easier access to testing facilities and scale-up their technology faster and cheaper towards the market.
Definition
Pilots4U, the platform of multipurpose open access pilot and demo-infrastructures for the European bio-economy, creates a wide view of the availability, type of facility and equipment modules these infrastructures offer.
Are you looking for a partner to scale-up your innovative process? All facilities included in the database are open to any start-up, small, medium or large enterprise looking for equipment and expertise to translate an innovative lab scale process into a viable industrial process. Search the Pilots4U database to find the equipment that suits your needs.
So Pilots4U provides solutions that will support the faster and cheaper development of innovations into products.