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Industrial research and development of furan biobased monomer materials
Furan bioplastics: High-performance degradable, replacing petroleum plastics and widely used.
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Material
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Bio-based
Monomer material
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Solution maturity
Early adoption / Process verification
Cooperation methods
Face-to-face consultation
Applicable industry
Manufacturing
Applications
Green materials
Key innovations
This product is innovative: furan biobased replaces petroleum plastics, with comparable performance and low cost. Solve the contradiction between environmental pollution and performance, and lead the world in small scale.
Potential economic benefits
Low cost and excellent performance, it can replace the trillion-dollar petroleum-based plastic market, bring significant economic benefits and meet the demand for high value-added products.
Potential climate benefits
Furan-based plastics replace petroleum-based plastics, significantly reducing fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions from the production process. Its biobased source can absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide and achieve a reduction in the net carbon footprint throughout the product life cycle.
Solution supplier
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Ningbo Institute of Materials, China Academy of Sciences
Ningbo Institute of Materials, China Academy of Sciences
Focus on cutting-edge innovation in materials technology, provide engineering technology solutions, and serve national strategies and industrial development.
Solution details

1. Project Introduction

The large consumption of petroleum-based plastic products has caused increasingly serious pollution to the environment. From the original white pollution caused by plastic bags/films, to the later "persecution" of living things by land and marine plastics, to the recent discovery of plastic particles in drinking water/salt/human feces, non-degradable, benzene ring containing environmental protection problems caused by petroleum-based bioplastics and threats to the life and health of earth's organisms have been highlighted. Sane humans are actively looking for bio-based and biodegradable bio-based plastic products, gradually popularizing environmental protection concepts, and actively guiding consumers 'consumption habits.

Among the bio-based plastic products that are comparable to benzene ring plastic products, the most likely one is currently considered to be furan bio-based plastic products. Therefore, scientific research institutions and large chemical giants around the world regard furan biobased plastics as one of the strategic development directions. At present, the main R & D institutions at home and abroad include: Ningbo Institute of Materials, Institute of Chemical Technology, Changchun Institute of Chemical Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University of Technology, Tsinghua University, East China University of Science and Technology, University of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania State University, Berkeley University, MIT, Wageningen University in the Netherlands; Companies include Avantium of the Netherlands, BASF of Germany, DuPont and ADM of the United States, Mitsui Chemical of Japan, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical of Japan, Toyo Toyo Chemical of Korea, Lotte Chemical of South Korea, etc.

Overall, the current global research on furan-based monomer materials is still in the laboratory pilot stage. The largest small test certificate currently is 100 tons/year (Ningbo Institute of Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences), followed by 60 tons/year (DuPont ADM), 40 tons/year (Avantium, Netherlands) and 20 tons/year (AVABIOCHEM, Switzerland).

2. Cooperation content

(1) Brief introduction of the main relevant technologies involved

  1. The product quality meets polyester grade requirements. After verification by a small-scale test device in a polyester factory, it can completely meet the polymerization requirements. The polymerization qualified products that have been completed in the company include polyethylene furandicarboxylate and furan polyamide and other products.

  2. Lowest cost. According to the economic and technical evaluation of the completed 100-ton pilot test, the product cost of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid can fully meet the requirements of some high value-added products of downstream companies. The largest R & D scale.

(2) Proposed cooperation areas and partners

Furan biobased monomer materials are products with similar properties to petroleum-based benzene rings. Materials that have been verified to be produced in terms of polymers include polyester, polyamide, polyurethane, plasticizer, etc., and can be used in application fields. It can be used in almost all aspects of human production and life, such as clothing, prevention, building materials, electronics, automobiles, daily necessities, engineering materials, electrical appliances, transportation, etc.

In terms of market capacity, the direct market capacity is more than one trillion yuan, and the indirect market capacity can refer to the petroleum aromatics market.

(3) Proposed cooperation model

Technology commissioning, technology development, technology transfer, technology licensing, industrialization



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