BioEconomy – Profile of the Leading Edge Cluster in

Central Germany

Romann Glowacki, DBFZ

TRIPLE-HELIX CONFERENCE ON BIO-BASED ECONOMY

Budapest 19th

and 20th

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What is a Bioeconomy?

Bioeconomy – a biobased Society

Bio-Resources

•wood

•agri-products

•aquatics

•residuals

Society

•acceptance

•climate-neutral

•circular economy

•social

Enterprises

•products

•processes

•services

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© DBFZ

Products: Wood industry

© pollmeier.com

(C) BioEconomy e.V.)

• construction elements

• buildings

• furniture

• interior fittings

Products: Pulp, Paper, Fibres

© lenzing-fibers.com

© Mercer International

• paper

• filters

• sanitary products

• tissue

• fabric

© Bioökonomierat

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• plastic bottels, packaging

• auto parts

• tires

• …

Products: Plastics and Rubber

Products: chemicals industry

© Bioökonomierat

• enzymes in detergents

• glue

• bio-foams

• bulk chemicals

(C) BioEconomy e.V.)

© Bioökonomierat

Products: fuels

transport and energy

• fuels

• biomethane

• solid energy carriers

(C) Paul Trainer (DBFZ)

Products: foodstuffs, drinks and tobacco

© Bioökonomierat

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BMBF Forschungsstrategie Bioökonomie 2030

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Products: pharmaceuticals and cosmetics

• …

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Quelle: Bioökonomierat

„The bioeconomycomprises all economic sectors and all industries

that produce, manage or otherwise use biological

resources including bio-waste.”

Source: German Bioeconomy Council

Pictures: Imagebrochure

Bioeconomy Council,

Fraunhofer CBP, TU

Dresden, C3 Technologies,

Linde AG, ThyssenKrupp

Industrial Solutions, DBFZ

Slide: © BioEconomy e.V.

The term of bioeconomy

What‘s the state of the art?

chemicals industry:

Type of biomass Amount [kt]

oils and fats 1.450

industrial sugars and

starch408

dissolving pulp 300

others 549

total 2.707

Increase from 8% in 1991 to 13% in 2009

Increase to 20% in 2020-2030?

share of imported biomass: ca. 60%

Source: Fraunhofer CBP.

What‘s the state of the art?

energy sector:

Share of renewable energies in final energy consumption in 2014

Source: Erneuerbare Energie in Zahlen, BMWi/AGEEStat 2014 (own presentation, DBFZ)

Global biomass supply and utilization

Source: nova-institute 2015,

Notice: The difference between supply and use is 6% and due to data inaccuracies

Feed

Biomass - a limited resource

DBFZ: Applied research on Bioenergy -

Our research focus areas

DBFZ – Key Data

Collage: © Schulz + Schulz Architekten GmbH

• Non-profit company

• Sole shareholder: Federal Ministry of Food and

Agriculture

• 200 scientists and staff

• 150 running projects per annum

• turnover: approx. 13 million € excl. capital

investments (2014)

Applied research at the DBFZ

Biogas Pilot Plant Combustion lab Fuel conditioning lab

Fuel technical centre Engine test bed Analytical lab

Pictures: DBFZ / Jan Gutzeit

International cooperations

Map: DBFZ

Focus regions:

Eastern europe

Eastern asia (China, Japan)

Latin america (Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Caribbean)

First cooperation activities:

North america

(Canada; later USA)

Contract research and science-based services

Policy advice

Market analyses and data provision

Technical, economic and ecological assesment

Concept and process development and optimisation

Scientific support to r&d projects

Knowledge and technology transfer

■ Unique cross-linking of the core industries

Timber, Chemicals and Plastics, Energy

■ Important sites of the chemical and the

wood working industry

■ Leading research institutes with pilot

facilities

■ 30 % of the german beech forest (supply

and logistics: wood-cluster Rottleberode)

■ Fertile agricultural region in Central

Germany

■ High density of universities and educa-

tional institutions (professionals potential)Core Region

Extended Clusterregion

Hot-Spot for a bio-based Economy

July 2013 – Opening of the ThyssenKrupp multi-fermentation plant

for lactic and succinic acid

October 2013 – Project launch of the Global Bioenergies iso-butene pilot plant within

the Fraunhofer CBP

October 2012 – Opening of the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological

Processes CBP – open platform

Fall 2011 – Start-up of „green“ hydrogen production from glycerine in a Linde pilot

plant

Early 2014 – the German Federal State Saxony-Anhalt is defining a lead market

„Chemistry and Bioeconomy“ within it‘s regional innovation strategy

The chemical site Leuna

An integrated site

Arneburg, Saxony-Anhalt

One of Central Europe‘s largest biomass power plants

Combined heat and power generation from residuals:

Power = 290 MW / Heat = 135 MW

Input: 3 Million cubic meters of pine per annum

Output: 670.000 t of pulp per annum

Zellstoff Stendal (Mercer Group) – one of the largest and

technically most advanced pulp-manufacturers in Central Europe

Leading Edge Cluster BioEconomyResource efficient value creation from non-food biomass

■ Founded by 23 members in 2012 and organised

as a regional network (BioEconomy e. V.)

■ Since 2012 Leading Edge Cluster of the German

Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF)

with 44 joint- and 144 sub-projects (Budget: 80 M.Euro)

■ Supported by the Ministry of Sciences and Eco-

nomic Affairs of the Federal State Saxony-Anhalt

■ Core region: Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony

(with Thuringia, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony)

Current Cluster structure (Members and Project Partners)

SME Large-Scale

Enterprises

Research-

Institutions

Universities/

Education

Networks Total

63 17 15 7 6 108

Key data of the BioEconomy Cluster

Excellent network of pilot-, demo-

and industrial plants encompassing

the whole value chain

Introduction of new bio-based

products in various bioeconomy

markets

Rising the social acceptance of the

bioeconomy

Sustainable development

of the cluster region by creating

jobs and value

Strategic Vision

Center of the wood-based integrated bioeconomy

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• Intermediates

• Specialities

• Biopolymers

• Bio-compounds

• NFC/WPC

• Drop-in fuels

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Aromatics

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Strategic Approach

Sustainable supply of renewable

resources

Classical and innovative wood

products

Extension of the value chain

by chemical digestion

Returning fermentation residues as

fertiliser into the raw material cycle

Utilization of disposals for bioenergy

Wood fiber composite materials,

biopolymers and new materials

Cascading value chain

on the example of wood

„Tragende Säulen“ from

Moulded Wood Bio-Foams

HTC-Coal and Bioenergy

Bio-WPC Casting

Biobased

Chemicals

Timber Construction

System for Zero

Energy Houses

Adhesives from

Lignin

Construction Materials from

Green Composites

Project Examples

Wood Chemicals Materials Energy

Management of the Bioeconomy Education for the Bioeconomy

Harvesting, logistics

and manufacturing,

innovative

construction

Production of basic

chemicals from non-

food biomass

Polymers, materials

und products from

biomass

Energetic utilization,

optimization in the

overall context of the

cascading value-

added chain

Cluster Management, logistics,

governance und organisation,

management of innovations and marketing

Academical education,

advanced training for professionals

retention of skilled workers

Fields of Expertise

Goal

■ New harvesting unit

■ New forwarder with integrated load cell

■ Development of a precision harvesting

system

HIPHAR - Harvesting

Fraunhofer IML

Hochschule Rosenheim

FHS Forsttechnik Handel & Service

GmbH

PFAHL Systemtechnik GmbH

Tyroller Hydraulik Herzberg GmbH

project team

R&D-Projects, some examples

Wood

© BioEconomy e.V.

Goal

■ Development of durable poles with high

mechanical load capacity for exterior use

■ Implementation of a production process

■ Modeling of the mechanical behavior

Beechpole

project team

Eurocoatings

Europoles

OM Maschinenbau

TU Dresden

R&D-Projects, some examples

Wood

© Europoles GmbH & Co KG.

Goal

■ Development of…

- pretreatment and desintegration

- conversion

- processing

- scale-up

- integration

■ …of biomass in order to produce bulk-

chemicals

Bulk Chemicals from

Biomass

R&D-Projects, some examples

Chemicals

Fraunhofer CBP, ICT, Linde Engineering,

CRI Catalyst

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-

Wittenberg, Universität Leipzig, many

more

project teams

© Fraunhofer CBP

Goal

■ Development of new nanoscale fillers from

biomass for rubber applications

■ Substitution of oil-based stabilizers

■ Increasing the product perfomance

Application in Rubber

products

R&D-Projects, some examples

Materials

Styron Deutschland GmbH

Zellstoff Stendal GmbH

Fraunhofer IAP und IWMH

project team

© Fraunhofer IAP

Goal

■ Light weight panels with ligno-foam

■ Utilization of lignin from bech wood

(Organosolv)

■ Qualification for construction elements

Ligno-Sandwich

R&D-Projects, some examples

Materials

IHD, Homatherm, SKZ, Ökonzept,

C3House, Fraunhofer IWM, CBP

und ICT

project team

© Fraunhofer IWM

Goal

■ Utilization of beech wood for fibres in WPC

■ Modification thermal resilience

■ Field of application: automotive

BIOWPC

R&D-Projects, some examples

Materials

IHD, Faurecia, Fraunhofer IWM und

IAP, REPOLY, Herotron, 3P,

Erfurt.Sasse, Flasin

project team

© Fraunhofer IWM

Goal

■ Charakterization of side-streams and by-

products

■ Development of a high-performance

anaerobe digestion process for biomethane

■ Integration into a coupled process

Energy from by-products

R&D-Projects, some examples

Energy

Vattenfall New Energy GmbH

DBFZ Deutsches

Biomasseforschungszentrum

project team

© Jan Gutzeit, DBFZ

Goal

■ Coupled process in order to produce solid

energy carriers and bulk chemicals

■ Development of a system concept

■ Preparation of a scale-up

HTC Biorefinery

R&D-Projects, some examples

Energy

DBFZ

Hallesche Wasser und

Stadtwirtschaft

ENDRESS

Artec Biotechnologie

Projektpartner

© DBFZ

Accompanying Research

Goal

■ Socio-economic research

■ LCA and process modeling

■ Innovation and Entrepreneurship

UFZ Helmholtz, DBFZ, Bioeconomy

e.V., HHL, Uni Leipzig

project team

© UFZ

■ Participation in the research and policy strategy “Bioeconomy” of the

Federal German Government

■ Seat in the German Bioeconomy Council (Prof. Daniela Thrän)

■ Networking to relevant committees

of the European Union

■ Intercluster-Cooperations with

regional, national and european

Cluster networks

■ Worldwide networking

with stakeholders of the bioeconomy

Networking of the

BioEconomy Cluster

Leading Edge Cluster BioEconomy

BioEconomy e.V.

Blücherstraße 26

06120 Halle/Saale

Germany

Phone: +49 345 / 1314 2730

E-Mail: office@bioeconomy.de

Your Contact to the BCM BioEconomy

Cluster Management GmbH:

Horst Mosler

Managing Director

horst.mosler@bioeconomy.de

Phone: +49 345 / 1314 2730

www.bioeconomy.de

DBFZ Deutsches

Biomasseforschungszentrum

gemeinnützige GmbH

Torgauer Straße 116

D-04347 Leipzig

Phone: +49 (0)341 2434 – 112

E-Mail: info@dbfz.de

www.dbfz.de

Smart Bioenergy – innovations for a sustainable future

Come and join us!

Contacts

romann.glowacki@dbfz.de

Prof. Dr. mont. Michael Nelles

Daniel Mayer

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela Thrän

Dr.-Ing. Jan Liebetrau

Dr.-Ing. Volker Lenz

Dr.-Ing. Franziska Müller-Langer