Pilot Plant facility for the Optimization of Biotechnological Processes

Description

Joachim Venus is head of the research group bioconversion/fermentation of biogenic feed-stocks/residues at the ATB Potsdam/Germany. His work emphasized on the development of continuous processes for the production of basic chemicals - in particular lactic acid - from biomass. The scale-up to a technical scale of several processing steps have to be developed for transferable solutions of bioconversion technologies based on renewable materials. For that purpose a multifunctional pilot plant was built at the site of ATB to investigate different feedstocks and bio-based products.
Numerous R&D projects have been carried out in the multi-functional pilot plant for the biotechnological production of lactic acid.