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Specific Challenge:Biorefinery operations, processing specific types of biomass feedstock, yield a wide variety of products and fractions for further valorisation to applications such as food, feed and materials. However, existing pre-treatment steps often result in relatively high concentrations of impurities and inhibitors, impeding high yields of the desired products. In the case of fermentation processes, for example, downstream processing steps for separation and purification could easily amount to about 80% of the total fermentation costs.
Ongoing developments towards process intensification of the total plant operation in other industrial sectors offer interesting opportunities for the bio-based industry. For example, in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food processing industries, process intensification has led to re-sizing, higher efficiencies and safer operations with significant cost reductions1. Similarly, process intensification could lower the costs of bio-based operations, including conversion and downstream processing.
The specific challenge is to improve biorefinery operations by applying process intensification concepts to lower oper...
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Specific Challenge:Biorefinery operations, processing specific types of biomass feedstock, yield a wide variety of products and fractions for further valorisation to applications such as food, feed and materials. However, existing pre-treatment steps often result in relatively high concentrations of impurities and inhibitors, impeding high yields of the desired products. In the case of fermentation processes, for example, downstream processing steps for separation and purification could easily amount to about 80% of the total fermentation costs.
Ongoing developments towards process intensification of the total plant operation in other industrial sectors offer interesting opportunities for the bio-based industry. For example, in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food processing industries, process intensification has led to re-sizing, higher efficiencies and safer operations with significant cost reductions1. Similarly, process intensification could lower the costs of bio-based operations, including conversion and downstream processing.
The specific challenge is to improve biorefinery operations by applying process intensification concepts to lower operational costs, increase operational safety and achieve high yields of the desired products.
1 See for example: D. Reay, C. Ramshaw, A. Harvey. Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility. Butterworth-Heinemann (2013).
Scope:Develop and evaluate process intensification steps and schemes for an integrated lignocellulosic biorefinery to lower capital and operational costs for safely achieving high yields of desired products.
When addressing the in situ recovery of targeted products, proposals should focus on technologies that will also enable the removal of highly reactive products and should consider a range of products including liquid and gaseous products.
Proposals should address all requirements for RIA as shown in Table 3 of the Annual Work plan 2019.
The technology readiness level (TRL) at the end of the project should be 4-5 for the bio-based value chain in question. Proposals should clearly state the starting and end TRLs of the key technology or technologies targeted in the project.
Industry participation in the project would be considered as an added value because it can play a supportive role to demonstrate the potential for integrating the developed concepts and technologies into current industrial landscapes or existing plants so they can be deployed more quickly and scaled up to apply industry-wide.
Indicative funding:
It is considered that proposals requesting a contribution of between EUR 2 million and EUR 5 million would be able to address this specific challenge appropriately. However, this does not preclude the submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected Impact:Expected impacts linked to BBI JU KPIs:
▪ contribute to KPI 1 – create at least one new cross-sector interconnection in the bio-based economy;▪ contribute to KPI 2 – set the basis for at least one new bio-based value chain;▪ contribute to KPI 8 – validate at least one new and improved processing technology reflecting the ‘TRL gain’ since the start of the project.
Environmental impacts:
▪ decrease biomass losses by at least 10%2;▪ increase the overall resource efficiency;▪ reduce the amount of energy required for separation and purification of the targeted products;▪ reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with downstream process steps within the biorefinery operations.
Economic impacts:
▪ decrease overall costs associated with biorefinery processes by at least 10%2 compared with current processing solutions identified as benchmarks;▪ when addressing fermentation processes, reduce production costs associated with the targeted products by at least 20%2 as compared with the state of the art;▪ increase income and business opportunities for stakeholders and actors (including primary producers) in the bio-based sectors.
Social impacts:
▪ improve the operational safety aspects linked to biorefinery operations;▪ create new job opportunities in the bio-based sector, particularly the rural, coastal and/or urban areas.
Type of action: Research and innovation action.
2 The proposal should present a convincing justification of the calculation of this rate, based on established econometric models and statistical data.
Cross-cutting Priorities:Cross-cutting Key-Enabling Technologies (KETs)Socio-economic science and humanities
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Características del consorcio
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La ayuda es de ámbito europeo, puede aplicar a esta linea cualquier empresa que forme parte de la Comunidad Europea.
Características del Proyecto
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La subcontratación en ayudas europeas no debe tratarse del core de actividades de I+D del proyecto. El contratista debe ser seleccionado por el beneficiario de acuerdo con el principio de mejor relación calidad-precio bajo las condiciones de transparencia e igualdad (en ningún caso consistirá en solicitar menos de 3 ofertas). En el caso de entidades públicas, para la subcontratación se deberán de seguir las leyes que rijan en el país al que pertenezca el contratante
Características de la financiación
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon 2020 projects. See the information in the Online Manual.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in Annex B and Annex C of the Work Programme.
Proposal page limits and layout: Please refer to Part B of the proposal template in the submission tool below.
3. Evaluation:
Evaluation criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex H of the H2020 Work Programme, with the exceptions described in part 2.3.6 of the BBI JU Work Plan.
Submission and evaluation processes are described in the Online Manual and the BBI JU Guide for applicants (RIA-IA-CSA).
4. Indicative time for evaluation and grant agreement:
Information on the outcome of evaluation: maximum 5 months from the deadline for submission.
Signature of grant agreements: maximum 8 months from the deadline for submission.
5. Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant agreements (MGA):
BBI Research and Innovation Action (BBI-RI... 1. Eligible countries: described in Annex A of the H2020 Work Programme.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon 2020 projects. See the information in the Online Manual.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in Annex B and Annex C of the Work Programme.
Proposal page limits and layout: Please refer to Part B of the proposal template in the submission tool below.
3. Evaluation:
Evaluation criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex H of the H2020 Work Programme, with the exceptions described in part 2.3.6 of the BBI JU Work Plan.
Submission and evaluation processes are described in the Online Manual and the BBI JU Guide for applicants (RIA-IA-CSA).
4. Indicative time for evaluation and grant agreement:
Information on the outcome of evaluation: maximum 5 months from the deadline for submission.
Signature of grant agreements: maximum 8 months from the deadline for submission.
5. Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant agreements (MGA):
BBI Research and Innovation Action (BBI-RIA)
Specific rules and funding rates: described in 2.3.4 of the BBI JU Work Plan.
Proposal templates are available after entering the submission tool below.
Standard evaluation form
BBI JU MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
BBI JU MGA Annex 2
BBI JU MGA Annex 4
H2020 Annotated Grant Agreement
BBI Innovation Action Demonstration (BBI-IA-DEMO)
and BBI Innovation Action Flagship (BBI-IA-FLAG)
Specific rules and funding rates: described in 2.3.4 of the BBI JU Work Plan.
Proposal templates are available after entering the submission tool below.
Standard evaluation form (IA)
BBI JU MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
BBI JU MGA Annex 2
BBI JU MGA Annex 4
H2020 Annotated Grant Agreement
BBI Coordination and Support Action (BBI-CSA)
Specific rules and funding rates: described in 2.3.4 of the BBI JU Work Plan.
Proposal templates are available after entering the submission tool below.
Standard evaluation form
BBI JU MGA Multi-Beneficiary
BBI JU MGA Annex 2
BBI JU MGA Annex 4
H2020 Annotated Grant Agreement
6. Additional requirements:
Technology readiness levels (TRL)
Members of consortium are required to conclude a consortium agreement, in principle prior to the signature of the grant agreement.
7. Open access must be granted to all scientific publications resulting from Horizon 2020 actions.
Where relevant, proposals should also provide information on how the participants will manage the research data generated and/or collected during the project, such as details on what types of data the project will generate, whether and how this data will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved.
Open access to research data
The Open Research Data Pilot has been extended to cover all Horizon 2020 topics for which the submission is opened on 26 July 2016 or later. Projects funded under this topic will therefore by default provide open access to the research data they generate, except if they decide to opt-out under the conditions described in Annex L of the H2020 main Work Programme. Projects can opt-out at any stage, that is both before and after the grant signature.
Note that the evaluation phase proposals will not be evaluated more favourably because they plan to open or share their data, and will not be penalised for opting out.
Open research data sharing applies to the data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications. Additionally, projects can choose to make other data available open access and need to describe their approach in a Data Management Plan.
Projects need to create a Data Management Plan (DMP), except if they opt-out of making their research data open access. A first version of the DMP must be provided as an early deliverable within six months of the project and should be updated during the project as appropriate. The Commission already provides guidance documents, including a template for DMPs. See the Online Manual.
Eligibility of costs: costs related to data management and data sharing are eligible for reimbursement during the project duration.
The legal requirements for projects participating in this pilot are in the article 29.3 of the Model Grant Agreement.
8. Additional documents
BBI JU Work Plan
BBI JU Scientific Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA)
BBI JU Derogation to H2020 Rules for Participation
BBI JU Regulation of Establishment
H2020 Regulation of Establishment
H2020 Rules for Participation
H2020 Specific Programme
FAQ for Applicants 2019
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