Course 12912 Biorefinery, Technologies and Applications

Bioraf Øresund PhD course Biorefinery, technologies and applications Wednesday, May 23, 2012 DTU Environment

Course 12912 Biorefinery, technologies and applications

Course title Biorefinery, technologies and applications (Bioraffinaderier, teknologier og anvendelser)

Course description Biorefinery is a complex process/technology, which requires multidisciplinary knowledge. To get an insight in the processes, it is required to have knowledge about biomass culturing and characterisation, bioconversion processes, microbiology and life cycle analyses. The aim of the course is to give an insight in the different topics, so that a PhD student quickly can get a holistic overview of the biorefineries. The course will also involve industrial partners and includes excursions to some of the largest biorefineries in the Øresund region. The Øresund region will be in focus during the course. The course is co-organised with our Swedish partners Lund University and the Agricultural University of Sweden in Alnarp. From DTU the following departments participate: DTU Chemical Engineering and DTU Systems Biology as well as DTU Environment.

The course will focus on:

 Which crops can be used

 Which pre-treatment is needed

 Fermentation

 Separation

 Financial and environmental life cycle analysis

Learning objectives Be able to describe the concept of biorefinery.

Be able to design a biorefinery process based on the composition of different biomasses.

Be able to define which target products that should be included in the biorefinery concept.

Be able to select the optimal microorganisms for production of the target products.

To have an idea about the status of biorefinery technologies of today.

Course credits 3 ECTS

Course level PhD course with possibility for participants from industry

Course coordinator Josefin Ahlqvist, Project manager, Lund University

1 Bioraf Øresund PhD course Biorefinery, technologies and applications Wednesday, May 23, 2012 DTU Environment

Course responsible Irini Angelidaki, Professor, DTU Environment lecturers Irini Angelidaki, Professor, DTU Environment (IRIA) Stefan Lundmark, Senior Scientist, Perstorp AB (SL) Rajni Hatti-Kaul, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, LTH/Lund University (RHK) John Woodley, Professor, DTU Chemical Engineering (JW) Eva Johansson, Professor, Agrosystem, Swedish University of Agriculture (EJ) Anders Carlsson, Associate Professor, Plant breeding and Biotechnology, Swedish University of Agriculture (AC) Anne Meyer, Professor, DTU Chemical Engineering (AM) Mhairi Workman, Associate Professor, DTU Systems Biology (MW) Bo Mattiasson, Professor, Department of Biotechnology at Chemical Center, LTH/Lund University (BM) Guido Zacchi, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, LTH/Lund University (GZ) Dr. Oliver Thum, Director Biocatalysis Biotechnology, Evonik Industries AG (OT) Rafiqul Gani, Professor, DTU Chemical Engineering (RG) Lars J Nilsson, Professor, Department of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, LTH/Lund University (LJN) Linda Tufvesson, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, LTH/Lund University (LT) Pär Tufvesson, Post Doc, DTU Chemical Engineering (PT)

Course period Summer 2012 and most likely summer 2013

Course dates Week 34; 20-24AUG2012

Venue Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Anker Engelunds Vej 1 Bygning 101A, conference center room S01 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark

Registration To sign up for the course you have to send an e-mail to Josefin Ahlqvist: [email protected]. You have to inform if accommodation is needed and if you have any dietary requirements.

Registration date 05AUG2012

Payment of fee The course fee is 230 € and includes all transport during excursions, all lunches and the dinner in the evening of day 4, Thursday 23AUG2012.

Accommodation can be arranged at DTU Campus Village for additional 200 €. The accommodation fee includes linen and towels and final cleaning, but no breakfast. The guests may arrive Sunday 19AUG2012 and have to check out by Friday 24AUG2012 at 12.00. 20 rooms are pre-booked and will be distributed on a first-come-first serve basis.

If accommodation is not needed, a course fee of 230 € will be charged. If

accommodation is needed, a total fee of 430 € will be charged.

The fee has to be paid to DTU:

 For Danish payment use reg.nr.: 4180 and konto nr.: 4263972007 in Danske Bank AS.

 For international payment use IBAN: DK 57 3000 4263 9720 07 and S.W.I.F.T. code DABADKKK.

In both cases you have to refer to “Kursus 12912”.

Language English

Required skills Participants must have pre-knowledge within the area of microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology.

Course organisation Course preparation (40 hours)

1) Studying supplied material before course start

2) Prepare poster about the participants PhD project (research project)

3) Project work during the course

Class room teaching/lectures (24 hours)

Company visits (12 hours)

Class room exercises (2 hours)

Poster presentation and discussion (4 hours)

Total (82 hours)

Reading material Reading material will be supplied before course start. One week of preparation is required for participation in the course.

Type of evaluation Pass/fail based on an advance preparation of a poster about the participants PhD project (research project), presentation of the poster on the first course day and discussion of the poster on the last course day. Furthermore, active participation in the course during the five days at DTU is mandatory for passing the course.

Final evaluation Pass/fail based on assessment from main lecturer.

Keywords Biorefinery, enzymes, biomass culturing, biomass characterisation,

bioconversion processes, microbiology, life cycle analysis

No. of participants Minimum 10, maximum 25

Preliminary course plan

When What Responsible

Pre day 1-5 Homework: prepare poster, study supplied material Participants

Day 1 20AUG2012

09.00-09.30 Introduction IRIA

09.30-12.00 All participants present themselves with one slide; interests and aim Participants of project. Maximum 5 min for each, including presentation and poster introduction.

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-14.00 Perstorp’s interest in biorefinery SL

14.00-15.00 Potential chemicals RHK

15.00-16.00 Integration of biological techniques into biorefinery operations. JW

Day 2 21AUG2012

08.00-10.00 Biomass and plants EJ, AC

10.00-12.00 Pre-treatment IRIA

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-14.00 Enzymatic pre-treatment AM

14.00-16.00 Conversion including microorganisms and metabolic engineering. One MW, IRIA assignment and guided tour

Day 3 22AUG2012

07.45 Departure from DTU, Anker Engelunds Vej 1, Bygning 101A

09.30-12.00 Visit at Inbicon (DONG Energy) in Kalundborg, including information IRIA about processes

12.00-13.00 Lunch at Inbicon

14.00-16.00 Visit at CP Kelco ApS factory including guided tour IRIA

Day 4 23AUG2012

08.15 Departure from DTU, Anker Engelunds Vej 1, Bygning 101A

10.00-11.00 Visit at Lund University including lecture BM

11.00-12.00 Thermo chemical methods plus visit at Guido Zacchi’s laboratory GZ

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.30-16.30 Visit at Annaberg biorefinery (pilot plant) BM

Future options for biorefinery for chemicals for the production of OT materials

Evening Dinner JA

Day 5 24AUG2012

09.00-10.00 Systematic methods and tools for biorefinery modelling, design and RG analysis

10.00-11.00 Potentials and policy LJN

11.00-12.00 Perspectives for life cycle analysis and process economy LT, PT

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-16.00 Summary and discussion of each poster, maybe grouped according to Participants, topics IRIA

JA: Josefin Ahlqvist, project manager, Lund University