Peter Keeling
National Science Foundation, USA
Title: Innovations and developments towards advanced biomanufacturing of biobased chemicals
Biography
Biography: Peter Keeling
Abstract
The NSF funded Engineering Research Center, CBiRC, is developing innovative biorenewable chemical platforms from bio-based feedstocks. CBiRC uses state of the art knowhow, components and computational tools combined with core knowhow in biocatalytic and chemical catalytic engineering. Together this is creating an outstanding education program, a powerful R&D portfolio and unique insights into how to pull this together into systems level opportunities. By joining CBiRC\'s valuable industry membership program, industry members gain access to these technological developments. CBiRC believes the existing petrochemical supply chain can be transformed with key foundational intermediates that deliver an array of drop-in chemistry or similar functionality to existing fossil-carbon-based chemicals. Here we will describe our progress towards creating advanced biomanufacturing systems with new platform molecules for biobased chemicals.