Free webinar: Value from CO2: The power of Biotechnology

Carbon is the main component of hundreds of materials used in industrial processes and in our daily lives. To meet the increasing demand for these products in a sustainable way, various types of renewable carbon can be used, including CO₂. Industrial biotechnology has a high potential to tackle harmful CO₂ emissions and convert CO₂ into value-added products, but there are still some technical and economic barriers to address. 

In this free webinar, you will learn all about innovative biotechnological conversion processes, that have been studied and evaluated for CO₂ capture and conversion in the EU-funded BioRECO₂VER project. The project presentations will be complemented with industrial and policy perspectives through contributions of 3 external guest speakers from nova-Institute, Electrochaea and CO₂ Value Europe. 

Please find the final agenda here:

• 14:00 h: Introduction to the workshop and BioRECO₂VER project  (Heleen De Wever, VITO)
• 14:10 h:  Current market situation: CO₂ as chemical feedstock for polymers (Pauline Ruiz, nova-Institute)
• 14:25 h:  CO₂ capture by hybrid chemo-enzymatic process (Io Antonopoulou, Luleå University of Technology)
• 14:40 h: New microbial platforms for CO₂ conversion (Giuliana d’Ippolito, National Research Council of Italy)
• 15:05 h: Bio-electrochemistry for CO₂ conversion (Sebastià Puig, University of Girona)
• 15:20 h: (Pressurized) fermentation for CO₂ conversion (Heleen De Wever, VITO - Jean-Luc Dubois, Arkema)
• 15:35 h: Break
• 15:45 h: Process and metabolic modelling and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (María López, IDENER Scientific Computing)
• 16:00 h: LCA and social acceptance of CO₂-based products (Christopher vom Berg, nova-Institute)
• 16:15 h: Biological Methanation: An industrial-scale application for energy storage, CO₂ reuse and renewable fuel (Jose Rodrigo Quejigo, Electrochaea)
• 16:30 h: Carbon Capture and Utilization and the EU policy context (Anastasios Perimenis, CO₂ Value Europe)
• 16:45 h: Q&A
• 17:00 h: End of workshop

You can register for the free webinar here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lyMYBwKwRRKthJBvgGi9EQ

The BioRECO₂VER project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 760431.