ZELCOR Summer School – 2nd edition – Postponed to 8-11 February 2021 online

“Zero waste biorefineries: value chain approach, methods, and processes for lignin up-grading”

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Date: 8 February 2021 – 11 February 2021
Accommodation: online (ZOOM)
Organizing and hosting partner: INRAE / AgroParisTech and nova-Institute
Scientific committee: S. Baumberger (AgroParisTech), C. Faulds (Aix Marseille University), R. Gosselink (WFBR), M. Osterberg (Aalto University)

Tentative program (all times given in CET)

Day 1 – 8 February 2021

From plant cell-wall to multifunctional assemblies

  • 09:45 – 10:15 Stéphanie Baumberger (AgroParisTech) – Introduction and Welcoming
  • 10:15 – 11:00 Herman Höfte (INRAE) – Plant cell wall: biosynthesis and architecture
  • 11:00 – 11:15 Break
  • 11:15 – 12:00 Bernard Cathala (INRAE) – Nanocellulose and nanocellulose / hemicellulose assemblies
  • 12:00 – 12:45 Craig Faulds (Aix Marseille University) – The fungal frontier: is total microbial breakdown and modification of lignin a possibility?
  • 12:45 – 14:00 Lunchbreak
  • 14:00 – 14:45 Sandra Domenek (AgroParisTech) – Lignin-based phenolics as antioxidant additives in polymer films
  • 14:45 – 15:30 Jérôme Vachon (Sabic) – Lignin multifunctionality for the design of insect-repellent food packaging
  • 15:30 – 15:45 Break
  • 15:45 – 16:30 Monika Osterberg & Guillaume Rivière (Aalto University) – Production, modification and applications of spherical lignin nanoparticles

Day 2 – 9 February 2021

Tools for lignin deconstruction and structural investigation

  • 09:45 – 10:30 Stéphanie Baumberger (AgroParisTech) – Selective chemical deconstruction
  • 10:30 – 11:15 Grégory Chatel (Université Savoie Mont Blanc) – Potential of sonochemistry for the green chemistry of polyphenols
  • 11:15 – 11:30 Break
  • 11:30 – 12:15 Florian Pion (AgroParisTech) – Monitoring of molar-mass distribution
  • 12:15 – 13:00 Paul-Henri Ducrot (INRAE) – Characterization of functionalities by NMR
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunchbreak
  • 14:00 – 14:45 Guy Marlair & Pascal Pandard (INERIS) – Multicriteria safety assessment of lignin valorisation in biorefineries
  • 14:45 – 16:30 Work in group on case studies

Day 3 – 10 February 2021

Lignins as lever for sustainable plant-biomass value chains

  • 10:30 – 11:15 Wout Boerjan (Gent University) – Lignin engineering to improve biomass deconstruction
  • 11:15 – 12:00 Enrico Cozzoni (Gradozero) – Integrated flexible processing chain for lignin valorization into carbon-based materials: example of the Eucaliva project
  • 12:00 – 14:00 Lunchbreak
  • 14:00 – 14:45 Achim Raschka (nova-Institute) – Market opportunities
  • 14:45 – 15:30 Jairo Lora (GreenValue Enterprises LLC) – Industrial production and commercialization of lignin from soda pulping of annual fibres
  • 15:30 – 15:45 Break
  • 15:45 – 16:30 Xun Liao (Quantis) – Environmental impact

Day 4 – 11 February

Towards integrated lignin biorefineries

  • 10:00 – 10:45 Richard Gosselink (WFBR) – Fractionation and chemical depolymerization process for the production of functional intermediates from lignin – cascading approach
  • 10:45 – 11:30 Christopher vom Berg (nova-Institute) – How and why elaborating a SWOT analysis on social impacts?
  • 11:30 – 13:00 Build-up your own lignin biorefinery!
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunchbreak
  • 14:00 – 16:00 Presentation of the results from the case studies
  • 16:00 – 16:30 Round table and concluding remarks

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> Summer School 2019 program, was held in Wageningen, the Netherlands from 2-6 September 2018