Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC)

Competence, Knowledge and Technology for a Sustainable Bioeconomy

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr – Spokesman of the BioSC Acting Directorate

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Sustainable Bioeconomy – Knowledge about biological systems for innovative

products for grand challenges of society

Food

Bio-based

materials /

chemicals

Bio-

Pharmaceuticals

Bioenergy

Food / Feed Energy Renewables Health

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Bioeconomy Science Center –

Strategies for Europe, intersectorial and global

BECOTEPS

Science – Industry - Society Politics and Policies

in Europe

Lead market initiative

„Bio-based products“

International Cooperation

EU-Latin America EU-India

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High Tech Strategy: Bioeconomy is a cross-cutting task

• Plants

• Biotechnology

• Material technologies

• Energy technologies

• Environmental technologies

Project funding BMBF

-BioIndustry 2021

-BioEnergy 2021

-Plant – KBBE

-ERA-NETs

-Agrar cluster

-Sustainable land use

-…..

Bioeconomy Strategy

Review report

Bioeconomy

Council

National

Research Strategy

Bioeconomy 2030

Coalition agreement

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A future Bioeconomy will be different:

Changed challenges

- Globalisation and global solutions

- Global and climate change

- Global population

- Varied societies

But also other solution approaches

- Capacity and competence of economy

- New and alternative technical systems

- Revolution of knowledge by science,

education and upbringing

- Changed political and societal systems

Contributions to Grand Challenges

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Bio-based products

Stewardship to natural

ressources

Biomass production

Biomass processing

Sustainable use of

natural ressources (water, nutrients, energy)

Zero and low

waste

technology

Lead markets for

economic

sustainability

Low impact

production and

products (biodiversity,

agrochemicals, recycling)

Sustainable Bioeconomy

Closing the loop

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Challenges for a future Bioeconomy

Sustainable and efficient

production of raw

materials

Ressource-efficient

processing of raw

materials to bio-based

products

Innovative and

competitive products

Bio

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Engin

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Econom

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Aims Interdisciplinary

Science Economy and

Politics

New Structures of

cooperation

New technologies

New markets

(Lead markets)

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Bioeconomy Science Center - from bundling to focusing of excellent competencies

• technology platforms

• integration of knowledge and technologies

• strategy-oriented research

• modern agricultural sciences

• food – plant production – renewable resources

• excellent natural sciences

• basic science as basis for application

• engineering meets natural sciences

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54 Core Groups

> 1200 staff members

joint technology platforms

~30 Mio. € third party funding

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• Improvement of quality and quantity of biomass

• Improvement of resource use efficiency

• Bio-geo-chemical material cycles and efficient aquisition of nutrients from

soils

• Vulnerability and resistence as well as adaptation possibilities of

agricultural cropping systems against environmental changes

• Integrative approaches for the evaluation of land use changes

Sustainable Plant Bioproduction and Resource

Stewardship

17 Core Groups

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Hydrological and biogeochemical processes in terrestrial systems as a basis

for sustainable bioeconomy

Environmental processes and technologies

Modelling terrestrial systems:

Terrestrial Biogeochemistry:

Research Tools and technology competences

Observed data

Receiv

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depth

[m

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Time [ns]

80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160

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Optimising Plant Production • Yield and quality • Stress resistance • Efficiency of nutrient, water and light use

Innovative bio-based products

• Cell walls and cell wall products • High value products • Molecular farming • Biosenorics Research tools and competence • Innovative breeding tools • Bioinformatics • Non-invasive phenotyping and image

analysis • Integrated production systems

Sustainable Production of Plants for food/ feed, materials and energy

Molecule

Plant

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Design and application of

robotics and informatics

• Automation and Integration

• Quantitative Image Analysis

specialized plant growth facilities

• UV-transparent greenhouse

• Fully automated growth chambers

• Field positioning systems

databases, computing and

experimental planning tools

• Plant Information System

• Environment Data Base

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• Methods for the production of bulk and fine chemicals, pharmalogical

products, and protiens form renewable resources.

• Whole cell processes, isolated enzymes and chemical catalysts for

effective and efficient transformation of substrates

• Integrative production systemes

• New products for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry

Microbial and Molecular Transformation

10 Core Groups

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Bio-based produktion of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and proteins

with microorganisms and enzymes

Microbial cell factories

• Metabolism, regulation, signal transduction

• Systems biology and modelling

• Population heterogeneity and single cell analysis

Synthetic biology:

• Novel metabolic and synthesis pathways

• Biosensors

Research tools and technology competences:

• „Omics“ technologies

• Single cell analytics by microfluidics and FACS

• Modelling and simulation

• Innovative concepts for strain and process development

• High-throughput cultivation

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• Fractionation of biomass – form plant to definite monomeric intermediates

• Chemical transformation – from monomeric intermediates to products

• Product design – from molecule to function

Chemical Engineering of Renewable

Resources

10 Core Groups

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Reaction

Pathways

Reaction and

Separation Processes

Low Emission

Combustion

Tailored Crops:

Composition

Bio- and

Chemo-Catalysis

Sustainable

Agriculture

Water

Technologies

Biorenewables Processing …

Tailor-made

Fuels

Green

Solvents

Chemical Engineering:

principles of material

and energy conversion

technologies

systems integration

Interacting

Product and Process

Systems

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Multi-Scale Product and Process Systems Engineering

1 pm 1 nm 1 μm 1 mm 1 m 1 km length scale

ps

ns

ms

s

minutes

hours

days

weeks

months

time scale

small

large

medium

molecule clusters

particles, films

molecules

single- and multi-

phase systems

unit operation

chemical scale

plant

site

supply chain

measure

model

design

operate

control

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• Global and regional socio-economic and economic framework conditions

• Production management

• Environmental and resource economics

• Organisation and management von process chains

• Consumer attitude and acceptance

Economy and Social Implications of a

Bioeconomy

5 Core Groups

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Integrated approaches – example bioenergy

2. Generation

3. Generation

Optimisation of Photobioreactors (PBR)

Large Scale Pilot System @ Power plant

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Novel biomass sources

Optimisation of Photobioreactors (PBR)

Large Scale Pilot System @ Power plant

Biokerosin

Optimisation

of

biochemistry

and genetics

of algae

Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC)

Competence, Knowledge and Technology for a Sustainable Bioeconomy