Collaboration

Transferring the manufacturing process to a larger scale is an essential step in bringing new sustainable products to market. With its expertise in scaling up a multitude of processes and its own pilot plants, Fraunhofer IGB supports companies in the market launch of green products. A wide variety of modules are available for scaling up new processes at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes branch in Leuna. Fraunhofer CBP also offers its expertise and infrastructure for the construction of the customer's own demonstration plants.

• Scaling of processes developed in the laboratory
• Provision of data for constructing the next technology stage
• Integrated process development and optimization, including the integration of external equipment for direct process comparison
• Process verification and show cases, such as investor rounds
• Provision of data for techno-economic evaluation and life cycle analysis of processes
• Synthesis of sample quantities for application tests
• Joint IP development 

We support our industrial customers in the realization and scaling of their processes with a wide range of services in the following areas:

Process design and dimension

• Processes and plants – up to demonstration scale
• Accompanying laboratory development, e.g. with high-throughput screening and analytics in the field of chemical-biotechnological processes
• Adaptation of the process design, e.g. by transferring from batch to continuous processes
• Reactor and module design, construction and manufacturing

Technical plants

• Pilot plants (e.g. power-to-X processes, fuel synthesis, biomass fractionation, fermentation, biocatalysis)
• Chemical and biotechnological processes up to 10 m³ reactor volume
• Extensive equipment for downstream processing and product purification

Industrial process demonstration

• Operation and simulation
• Provision of sample material up to ton scale
• Provision of process data