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Monthly seminars for researchers across the university, as well as our collaboration partners in industry and other institutes, to come together. Each month, LUBIRC holds a breakfast seminar on a different topic of interest to our…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/events/lubirc-breakfast-seminars- 2021-01-28

By louise [dot] howes [at] kilu [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Howes) - published 8 October 2021 How can we leave the era of fossil fuels behind us? Join us for two mornings of inspiring talks focusing on the role of the bioeconomy in our…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/article/time-register-bioekonomiriksdagen- 2021-11-09

By louise [dot] howes [at] kilu [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Howes) - published 18 January 2022 Last month's Bioekonomiriksdagen conference is now available to watch again. For the next two weeks, videos from Bioekonomiriksdagen are available…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/article/watch-bioekonomiriksdagen-again- 2022-01-18

Lund University Biobased Industry Center brings together researchers leading the way in developing the knowledge and design needed for biobased alternatives to traditional industrial products and processes. LUBIRC was founded at the…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/about-lubirc- 2021-05-31

LUBIRC is led by a management board, consisting of ten scientists across three different faculties, and one project leader from the Department of Research, Collaboration, and Innovation. The members of the board sit for terms of one year…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/about-lubirc/organisation- 2021-01-29

Lund University has a large team of researchers focusing on increasing our knowledge of how to create environmentally friendly chemicals, plastics, specific materials, fuel and energy sources from raw biological materials (biomass). Our…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry- 2021-01-29

Biofuels are one of the many different types of products that can be made in biorefineries. There is a great need for society to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels (from, for example, coal or natural gas) in order to reduce the quantity…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry/biofuels- 2021-01-21

A refinery is a factory where raw materials are transformed into useable products such as chemicals. Biorefineries perform the same role, but with biological raw material (biomass) such as plants or microorganisms instead of traditional…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry/biorefineries- 2021-01-21

The expression “industrial biotechnology” is used to describe the complete industrial process that uses biobased raw materials to produce chemicals, fuels, and products with help of primarily biotechnological methods. It is often called …

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/biobased-industry/industrial-biotechnology- 2021-01-21

About LUBIRC Read about how we can collaborate Our Research Industrial Biobased Researchers at Lund University Calendar Link to RSS More events What is biobased industry? LUBIRC was founded at the beginning of 2014 by scientists at Lund…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/lubirc- 2021-10-12

Research in areas related to the bioeconomy at Lund University The figure below illustrates the various areas of research that are involved in the different steps needed to develop a new product or process from renewable resources. More…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research- 2021-02-02

Sweden has all the right ingredients, both technically as well as in the form of available natural resources, to create a competitive bioeconomy with complex biorefineries and production of green chemicals. There are, however, many other…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/bioeconomy- 2021-01-26

Producing chemicals and materials from biomass instead of fossil resources is a much more complicated process. The biomass itself contains many different substances and, in order to use it in optimally, its composition needs to be analyzed…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/biomass- 2021-02-02

Transforming biobased resources into the desired products requires customized processes and technological solutions. The processes need to successfully integrate knowledge about the properties of both the resource used and the biocatalyst,…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/bioprocess-technology- 2021-01-22

Enzymes used for industrial catalysis (also called biocatalysts) have to meet a great number of requirements. They originate from living organisms, usually microorganisms, and they have a basic function to transform specific biological…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/enzymatic-catalysis- 2021-01-22

The biomass raw material consists of a large number of different chemical compounds – both small molecules and large (macro)molecules. The main macromolecules are cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, but there can also be a considerable…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/pre-treatment- 2021-01-22

Just because a product is produced using renewable raw materials and with biotechnological methods, it does not make it automatically more environmentally friendly. Using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), we can attempt to quantify the total…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/life-cycle-assessment- 2021-01-25

Within Lund University there is a significant research effort towards developing new materials and polymers. The building of both the European Spallation Source, ESS, and MAX IV in Lund has already begun to provide exciting new…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/material-science- 2021-01-22

In microbial catalysis, whole microorganisms (usually yeast or bacteria) are used to convert biomass into the desired product. Through genetic modification of the cell, metabolic engineering, evolutionary adaption, and/or optimization of…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/microbial-catalysis- 2021-01-25

In almost all industrial processes the separation of different components is needed. A variety of different techniques can be used at all stages; during pre-treatment of the raw material, during the downstream processing of the reaction…

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/summary-research/separation-technology- 2021-07-02