Philip Johannes Gorter de Vries

100% liquid-to-liquid fermentation for sustainable bulk chemicals

Applicant

Philip J. Gorter de Vries

Project description

While bio-manufacturing is well established for pharmaceuticals and other precision chemicals, it can’t compete with the economy of scale of petrochemistry for lower margin bulk chemicals. Current fermentations burn sugars to meet the cell’s energy needs, inevitably losing a large portion of the substrate as CO₂ resulting in low yields. We have developed a fermentation process that converts substrates fully into liquid products, with no losses to off-gas. In doing so we pave the way for competitive fermentation-based manufacturing, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions and reducing our dependence on fossil resources.

Institution

Technical University of Denmark

SPARK information

Philip and his team were accepted as part of cohort 5.