Green Biologics Limited

Food security is of significant importance, both locally in the UK, and more widely across the globe. As such it is highlighted in the UK government's clean growth plan and is one of the 'Global Goals for sustainable development'. The food and drink sector council's Covid-19 recovery plan has highlighted the need to create a more resilient, cleaner and gr...

Green Biologics Ltd. develops fermentation technology for renewable chemical production delivering improved quality and reduced life cycle impact compared to oil-derived chemicals. In this competitive market production cost is the major success driver. Improving production economics requires process knowledge and control, which requires state of the art p...

Awaiting Public Project Summary

Green Biologics (GBL) is a renewable chemical company currently commissioning the first new Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) plant to be built in the USA since 1938. GBLs technology is a bacterial fermentation, converting renewable or waste feedstocks to bio-acetone and bio-butanol. Currently butanol and acetone are derived from oil but the fermentation bio-...

The potential for producing renewable chemicals using fermentation hosts has gained momentum as technology for manipulating and optimising host strains has matured. In parallel, fermentation processes and downstream purification technologies have increased potential for high yields and productivities enabling companies to begin to compete commercially wit...

Green Biologics Ltd, a renewable chemical company which is now producing the only commercially available renewable acetone and butanol globally, is teaming up with innovative SMEs Dynamic Extractions (DE) and BioExtractions Wales (BEW) to develop a manufacturing process for the biological production of a medically and chemically important biochemical. Sup...

Green Biologics is an industrial biotech company, currently re-commercialising the clostridial ABE fermentation process for the production of n-butanol and acetone from renewable and sustainable feedstocks. There are many challenges inherent in this commercialisation process, not just with the complexities of engineering and process design but also with e...

Awaiting Public Project Summary

There is large global demand for acetone for use as a solvent and in production of important chemicals and materials including transparent plastics such as methyl methacrylate (MMA). Acetone is currently produced by reacting petro-chemicals propylene and benzene, hence its price is volatile and the process is unsustainable. GBL are experts in clostridial ...

It is generally accepted that the manufacturing industry, and the chemical industry in particular, needs to improve both the sustainability and the environmental impact of its products. However, although improved life cycle analysis (LCA) is important, the production cost and quality of renewable chemicals needs to be comparable with existing chemical pro...

The key challenge in this project is to demonstrate a fermentation process to produce biobutanol that can compete on price and quality with the incumbent petrochemical equivalent. Not only do we want to compete economically, we also want to demonstrate technology that can be deployed in the EU and Noth America using cellulosic feedstocks that are readily ...

In this project, the partners (GBL and Lucite) will determine the technical feasibility of engineering Clostridia to produce bioacetone in high yield (as opposed to biobutanol) using fermentation. The partners will also determine the economic feasibility and commercial viability of producing acetone as the sole fermentation product. It is envisaged that a...