Soy based products

Our materials experts are creating an entire family of consumer products based on the oils and proteins from soybeans that are recyclable, biodegradable, non-polluting, and energy efficient. Made from renewable resources with tailored functionality, these new bio-based products, including adhesives, plasticizers, lubricants, coatings, toners for copying machines, new specialty chemicals, and structural biocomposites, combine advanced materials expertise with biotechnology know-how. They, and products like them, represent the future of sustainable consumer products.

Other bio-based products

Transforming low-value biomass byproducts or waste into value-added fuel and chemical products can follow a number of pathways. Battelle-India is linked to broad expertise in catalytic and biological processing, coupled with experience in biomass materials, to efficiently develop optimized systems for products from specific biomass resources and situations. Combined capabilities in chemistry, microbiology, and process engineering are used to makes the most effective use of each feedstock component for synthesis of a multi-product slate. Such products can range from low-yield, high-priced nutraceuticals or higher yield, lower priced commodity chemicals or fuels. Some of the specific applications under development include:

• Starch extraction from wheat millfeed with conversion to glucose and subsequent catalytic or biological processing to value-added chemicals.
• Controlled hydrolysis of the corn fiber byproduct from corn wet milling to produce sugar streams for further processing, high-value extractants, and ferulic acid derivatives
• Cheese whey permeate processing for lactose-derived products through hydrolysis and catalysis or fermentation
• Animal manure separations for carbohydrate and protein recovery
• Processing by catalysis or fermentation the sugar products derived from the more complex carbohydrate structures such as corn starch, sugar beet pulp, or other lignocellulosics.

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