Project Outcome - BioSPRINT

Scientific Publications

Journal	Title	Authors	Partners	Publication Date	Link
Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.	Systematic Data-Driven Modeling of Bimetallic Catalyst Performance for the Hydrogenation of 5-Ethoxymethylfurfural with Variable Selection and Regularization	Pekka Uusitalo, Aki Sorsa, Fernando Russo Abegao, Markku Ohenoja, Mika Ruusunen	University of Oulu, Newcastle University	March 2022	Link
Speciality Chemicals Magazine	Process intensification in biorefining: Speeding up production of biorenewable chemicals	Fernando Russo Abegao, Kamelia Boodhoo	Newcastle University	May 2022	Link
Green Chemistry	Aqueous conversion of monosaccharides to furans: were we wrong all along to use catalysts?	Ana Jakob, Blaž Likozar, Miha Grilc	National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia; University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia; Pulp and Paper Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Polymer Technology, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia;	October 2022	Link
Membranes	Evaluation of Nanofiltration Membranes for the Purification of Monosaccharides: Influence of pH, Temperature, and Sulfates on the Solute Retention and Fouling	Buddhika Rathnayake, Hanna Valkama, Markku Ohenoja, Jasmiina Haverinen and Riitta L. Keiski	University of Oulu	November 2022	Link
Chemical Engineering Research and Design	Modelling, optimal solvent screening and separation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural or furfural from catalytic conversion reactor stream in downstream purification process	Ljudmila Fele Žilnik, Mladen Crnomarkovic, Uroš Novak, Miha Grilc, Blaž Likozar	National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Maturus Optimi industrial consulting BV, Netherlands	May 2023	Link

Conferences and Workshops

Title	Event	Partners	Event Date
Catalyst Development for Production of Biorenewable Chemicals Using Machine Learning and High-Throughput Experiments	European Congress in Chemical Engineering	UOULU, NIC, UNEW	September 2021
Process Intensification of Hemicellulose Recovery from Biorefinery Process Streams by Precipitation and Membrane Separation	13th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and 6th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology	UOULU, UNEW	September 2021
Dehydration of pentoses and hexoses to hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural over solid acid catalyst	27th Annual Meeting of the Slovenian Chemical Society (SKD)	NIC	September 2021
Catalyst development and purification technologies	Bio2X Biorefining of sugars via Process Intensification (BioSPRINT)	UOULU	March 2022
Machine Learning in catalyst development	Bio2X: Biorefining of sugars via Process Intensification (BioSPRINT)	UOULU	May 2022
Four questions to consider in LCA studies to identify bio-based products that are compatible with a defossilised economy	European Biomass Conference & Exhibition (EUBCE)	IFEU	May 2022
Hemicellulose for high value applications from organosolv fractionation	Renewable Resources and Biorefineries (RRB)	FhG	June 2022
From complex hemicellulose streams to purified platform chemicals	European Workshop on Lignocellulosics and Pulp (EWLP)	FhG	June 2022
Upstream purification, Catalyst Development and Kinetic Modeling for the Production of Lignocellulosic Bio-based Furanics	ACHEMA	NIC	August 2022
Dynamic modeling of diafiltration system of a biorefinery application	63rd International Conference of Scandinavian Simulation Society (SIMS)	UOULU	September 2022
Solvent Selection for Simultaneous Separation of Furans from Catalytic Reactor in Downstream Purification Process	The 12th international conference Distillation & Absorption 2022 (DA)	NIC	September 2022
Biomass derived hexose dehydration over solid acid catalyst in different solvent systems	International Conference Technologies and Business Models for Circular Economy (TBMCE)	NIC	September 2022
Nanofiltration in Purification of Hemicellulosic Sugars in Biorefinery Side Streams	EuroMembrane	UOULU	November 2022
Circular Economy around Biomass Conversion, Biorefining and Bio-processing	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK Community Workshop: Manufacturing and The Circular Economy	UNEW	February 2023
BioSPRINT – Biorefining of Sugars via Process Intensification	2nd Biomass Biorefinery Network Conference, York, UK	UNEW	March 2023
Optimisation of Catalytic Production of 5-HMF and Furfural using Phosphotungstic-Derived Heteropoly Acids	31st European Biomass Conference & Exhibit. 2023, Bologna, Italy	UNEW	June 2023
Valorisation Of Hemicellulose By-products Via Antisolvent Precipitation in a Spinning Disc Reactor	31st European Biomass Conference & Exhibit. 2023, Bologna, Italy	UNEW	June 2023
Process Intensification of Upstream Purification of Biorefinery Streams: Lignin Precipitation on a Spinning Disc	ISCRE 27 - 27th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering. 2023, Quebec City, Canada	UNEW	June 2023
High Speed Imaging Studies of Mixing Mechanisms in Agitated Cell Reactors	14th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and 7th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology	UNEW	September 2023