BioRECO2VER - Biological routes for CO2 conversion into chemical building blocks

Project team: Io Antonopoulou, Paul Christakopoulos, Ulrika Rova

Duration: 2018-2021

Project link: https://bioreco2ver.eu External link.

Funded by EU HORIZON 2020

BioRECO2VER aims to demonstrate the technical feasibility of more energy efficient and sustainable non-photosynthetic biotechnological processes for the capture and conversion of CO2 from industrial point sources like refineries and cement production plants into valuable platform chemicals, i.e. isobutene and lactate.

To overcome several of the existing technical and economic barriers for CO2 conversion by industrial biotechnology, BioRECO2VER will focus on minimizing gas pre-treatment costs, maximizing gas transfer in bioreactors, preventing product inhibition, minimizing product recovery costs, reducing footprint and improving scalability.

The Biochemical Process Engineering research group’s role is to investigate a hybrid enzymatic process for CO2 capture from industrial point sources to enable a subsequent conversion of captured CO2 into targeted end-products, realized through three different proprietary microbial platforms.