Bioket, short for BIOeconomy Key Enabling Technologies, has become the leading international event for processes, technologies and innovations that enhance the value of biomass, transforming it into valuable products that benefit a wide range of industries.
Ensuring the long-term sustainability of this sector requires the industrialization of efficient purification processes for biomass carbon fractions (cellulosic C6 and hemicellulosic C5 sugars), as well as for the molecules derived from these fractions through biosourced chemistry. These processes must deliver high yields while maintaining a low environmental footprint.
For several years now, Eurodia has been at the forefront of this challenge, with solutions for purification and fractionation that combine various types of technologies: membrane filtration, electrodialysis, chromatography and ion-exchange processes, from pilot testing to full-scale production.
The applications include…
- Biomass hydrolysates purification.
- Purification of molecules produced by fermentation.
- Purification and conversion of organic acids (gluconic, lactic, succinic, acetic, citric…).
One of Eurodia’s key strengths in this market lies in pilot testing — a critical phase that often determines the success of an industrial project, and enables a secure transition to fullscale production.
And as biomanufacturing scales up, downstream efficiency becomes critical to both performance and sustainability. In this context, Eurodia will contribute to a dedicated session on Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) for Smarter Downstream processing, highlighting how intelligent processing solutions achieve high purity, improve yields and support robust industrial deployment.
During this session, Marie Chauve, Process Innovation Manager at Eurodia, will present technical solutions for the purification of lignocellulosic sugars and lignin recovery.
She will be focusing on Improved Simulated Moving Bed (ISMB) chromatography (a powerful solution for hydrolysate purification, enabling both demineralization and decolorization while maintaining high sugar recovery) and how this process can be coupled with resin-based separation technologies to achieve a high degree of purity.
Already implemented at industrial scale for the production of sugars used in bioplastic manufacturing, this process also offers opportunities for lignin recovery, supporting an integrated purification strategy that enables valorization of all major biomass fractions.
