Ecological design for production of chemicals and energy from organic residues
Call for full proposals is opened on Tuesday June 8, 2010
Deadline submission of full proposals is Wednesday September 1, 2010, 11:59 a.m.
Een overzichtspagina met daarin links voor de verschillende open calls kunt u vinden op www.stw.nl/open+calls.htm.
Introduction From Waste to Resource
The W2R program aims to develop processes for an industry integrated production of resources from waste, in line with the waste=food credo defined in the cradle-to-cradle manifesto. Integration of industrial production processes with the effective valorisation of the generated organic residues will minimize the ecological footprint, and contribute to a more sustainable agroindustrial production.The research program is constructed around the basic concept of using mixed (non-defined) microbial cultures for conversion of organic residues to valuable products. In the first step of such a production process, water soluble volatile fatty are liberated from complex organic material by microbial conversion of the biomass constituents. In a second step, the volatile fatty acids are converted to end-products like biopolymers or methane containing biogas. Successful development of a process like biopolymer production from waste requires a multidisciplinary approach involving upstream biopolymer production as well as downstream product recovery and effective application of the polymer produced. The W2R program aims at facilitating such an integrated approach to establish implementation in industry of the processes proposed.
The programme leader is Dr. R. Kleerebezem of the Delft University of Technology.
For this programme a 25% contribution (cash or in-kind) is requested from the technology users. The full programme text can be found in “Program description Waste to Resource”.
Only applicants who have submitted a preproposal will be invited to submit a full proposal.
Please note: if you are going to submit a full proposal, you are requested to also submit a list of six (6) potential, independent, international reviewers, from industry or academia, by e-mail to the STW programme coordinator (r.winkler@stw.nl). The deadline for this is June 25, 2010.
The information needed for submitting an application can be found here:
For more information:
Dr. Ron Winkler
Technology Foundation STW
Tel: 030-600 13 09
E-mail: r.winkler@stw.nl