The Shared Research Center for Bio aromatics Performance Materials, Coatings & Chemicals

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1 The Shared Research Center for Bio aromatics Performance Materials, Coatings & Chemicals Bio Aromatics, Young Child and Holy Grail World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology Powered by: Joop Groen, Manager New Business Development 2014 Philadelphia

2 Globally developments early stage Need to bridge Agro Chemistry Gap Lab scale, some pilots Aromatics basis of 40% of materials, chemicals and coatings High end performance markets Strong market pull for BIObased 5/19/2014 2

3 Security of Supply Unexpected Shutdowns Geo Politics Psychology Policy Supply & Demand Crude Oil Price Volatility 5/19/2014 3

4 A shared research Program of TNO & VITO at the Green Chemistry Campus World Class in Bio Aromatics Technology Collaboration with critical mass, focused on renewable functionalized aromatic compounds 5/19/2014 4

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8 Activities: SRP lines horizon co products Scale of activities: Lab Pilot Demo 5/19/2014 8

9 BIOMASS BIO REFINERY INDUSTRIAL SUGARS AROMATICS CHEMICAL PLANT Approach Building partnerships throughout value chain Inventorize (technical) challenges Prioritize R&D topics Work toward implementation at full industrial scale 5/19/2014 9

10 Sugars Rest chemicals Solvents Fine chemicals Monomeric phenols Cross linkers Surfactants Biomass Oligomeric phenols Polymer building blocks Fuel (additives) Lignin Kraft, Organosolv Sec Gen. Hydrolysis Separation Polymers Conversion Separation BTX Fillers Lubricants + catalytic approach leading to 70% Alkyl phenol Bitumen Stabilizers Antioxidants 5/19/

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12 Platform Furanics Cyclo-addition (Diels-Alder) AROMATICS Modification (e.g. reduction, oxidation, decarbonylation) C5/C6 sugars (Hydrolysis &) Dehydration Furfural/HMF Tuneable chemistry for selective production of different targets (phenol, cresol, benzoic acids, xylenes, catechol, toluene, etc.) 5/19/

13 Commercial processes for furfural chemistry >95% yield /ton Platform Furanics Cyclo-addition (Diels-Alder) /ton bulk speciality AROMATICS C5/C6 sugars (Hydrolysis &) Dehydration Modification (e.g. reduction, oxidation, decarbonylation) Furfural/HMF Proof-of-principles & patents predominantly on xylenes & phthalates ~50-75% yield Commercial furfural process ~50% yield 1000 /ton Multiple technologies under development ~90% yield 5/19/

14 Knowledge position Avantium, DLO, TNO Different furanics Platform Furanics Cyclo-addition (Diels-Alder) AROMATICS C5/C6 sugars (Hydrolysis &) Dehydration Modification (e.g. reduction, oxidation, decarbonylation) Furfural/HMF 5 patents (pending) by Avantium, TNO, DLO Knowledge position DLO, TNO, 3 technologies 5/19/

15 Efficient chemistry (less by products) through improved catalysis & integrated product separation Lower CAPEX & OPEX through proven innovative process concepts Suitable feedstock & robust primary conversion Speciality aromatics Bulk aromatics 5/19/

16 Scale up Diels Alder technologies for (substituted) phthalates Proof of principle Diels Alder technologies for phenolic aromatics Application of continuous flow chemistry 5/19/

17 Scale up of biphasic system (solvents, salts, catalyst, etc.) Thermo physical model with chemistry incorporated Construction of bench scale unit (1 10 L/hr) Focus on mixing aqueous & solvent phases, scalable concepts yields of 90% in continuous mode Solve separation issues monophasic solvent systems (patent pending) Up to 4x lower downstream cost possible 5/19/

18 Collective Roadmap Insight in business case (Finance, LCA) Experimental detailed results IP (Patents & Licenses) Batches of product (100 gram, 1 kg, 10 kg, 100 kg) Demonstrators at lab, pilot & demonstration scale 18

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20 Want to find out more? Visit Holland Pavillion Check our website and contact us: Joop.groen@tno.nl This project is made possible by a contribution from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the framework of OP Zuid. 5/19/