Barentzymes AS
Interesting Biotec business opportunities:
new Biorefinery-based value chains
By
Lene Lange
Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
CSO, Barentzymes AS
Unfolding the full potentials of the
Bioeconomy
The START: Biomass to Bioenergy; substituting for fossils
NEW FOCUS: Unlocking the full potentials of many types of
Biomass. New value chains within Feed and Food ingredients
POLITICAL DRIVERs: technology export potentials, job
creation, improved resource efficiency, & rural development
NEEDS: new and improved enzymes; improved frame work
conditions; stimulating of markets for biobased products
From the R&D wish list:
• We have Peptide Pattern Recognition, PPR, predicting
function from sequence (Busk & Lange, 2013)
• Interest in prediction of:
– Protein expressability
– Protein stability
– Enzymes needed for specific biomass conversion
– Microbial consortium composition for upgrade of
specific types of Biorefinery feed stock
Short cut to new and improved enzymes:
Peptide Pattern Recognition, PPR
PPR:
HOTPEP:
PPR analysis and Artificial learning =>
Short cut to Discovery:
Mining also huge data bases by PPR, identifying which
enzyme genes with which function are present
Bioeconomy builds on
microbial conversion of many feed stocks
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The Yellow Biorefinery (straw, corn stover, wood)
The Green Biorefinery (fresh green leaves)
The Brown Biorefinery (from sludge)
The Blue Biorefinery (marin biomass & algae)
The White Biorefinery (agroindustrial WASTE)
Also higher value, health-relevant products
-unlocking the full potential of the Biomass!
Bioeconomy
Business in Blue biomass-based biorefining
-value chains in food, feed and health
Fish, discard, byproducts and waste:
Enzymatic -conversion =>
Healthy, protein rich food and feed ingredients, fish-oil
and Omega3, skin care and wound healing products
Need for new and improved enzymes and processes
Business in Slaugtherhouse-based biorefinery
-value chains in feed and health
Waste streams from meat production:
Blood => Ironrich food ingredients/nutraceutical
Feather and Bristles => protein rich animal feed
Insert:
Picture of chicken feather
Blue Biorefinery Value Cascade
Macro-Algae/Kelp!
Value chain potentials
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Product2Product:
Complexity2Product:
Building blocks2Materials:
Minerals2Nature:
Energy recovery
Gourmet food!
fucoidan; proteins; cosmetics
sugars for fermentation
phosphate back to soil
economically viable?
New Business: The Oil seed biorefinery
-value chains within food, feed and health
Oil seed press cake
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Rape Proteins and fibers
for feed and food ingredients
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Animal feed, more healthy gut flora, less antibiotics
Functional peptides with human health properties
Fungal biomass, waste from biological
production, is a new feed stock for upgrade
Fungal biomass (eg bakers yeast):
”Vinasse” from Biorefineries
=> Feed stock for new value chains as
food, feed and health ingredients:
beta glucans
yeast extract
prebiotics
filamentous fungi => vegetarian ”meat” for feed!
By PPR we can discover the
enzymes of nature´s own
biomass conversion!
Termite larvae (gut channel)
•Termite fungal gardens
Cow (rumen)
Iberian snail (gut)
Leaf cutter ant
Ectomycorrhiza;
insect fungi
Fungus grown by subterranean termites in Africa
Termitomyces titanicus up to 48% protein content
-fruting bodies and mycelium
Vision: Transforming household waste into
higher value products
Household waste can be
biotransformed to
Fungal or bacterial biomass
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Products:
BioPlastic
or
Healthy, fungal, protein-rich
animal feed
Result: saving land for growing food,
Feeding a growing population! New Business!
Yeast cream
Mushroom mycelium
From waste to protein-rich animal feed or
bioplastic -by microbial biotransformation
Biorefinery technology in future: enzymatic
biomass conversion and Biotransformation
• Make bio-waste into a growth substrate
• Produce new protein-rich fungal or insect
biomass, by growing fungi or insects on the
bio-waste
• Use the left over biomass for bioenergy
The Bioeconomy Wish list:
• Biorefineries will be on Juncker´s EU investment plan
– For growth and jobs!
• Nordic collaboration in Bioeconomy
– Sharing infrastructure, building markets; faster
• Sense of Urgency (not just lignocellulose!):
– European-produced protein to substitute for imported soy
– Blue biomass biorefinery => new value chains
– Slaugtherhouse by-product upgrade => ditto
Barentzymes Cph, located at
AAU campus,
Copenhagen harbor front
Questions welcome!
Lene