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Industrial Crops producing added value Oils for Novel chemicals


Category

FP7 Project with U.S. partner

Short name and number

ICON (211400)

Area

Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology

Description

Replacing fossil oil with renewable resources is perhaps the most urgent need and the most challenging task that human society faces today. Cracking fossil hydrocarbons and building the desired chemicals with advanced organic chemistry usually requires many times more energy than is contained in the final product. Thus, using plant material in the chemical industry does not only replace the fossil material contained in the final product but also save substantial energy in the processing.

Participating Countries

Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Canada and China.

Name of US Partner

DONALD DANFORD PLANT SCIENCE CENTER, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

Contact

SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET

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BILAT-USA (Grant Agreement no: 244434) and Link2US (Grant Agreement no: 244371) Projects are co-funded by the European Union’s Capacities Programme on International Cooperation under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Cooperation.