Greenifying chemistry to accelerate the transition towards a circular, waste-free society: that, in a nutshell, is what drives the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC). At ARC CBBC, Utrecht University, Groningen University, Eindhoven University of Technology and partners from the chemical industry like AkzoNobel, Shell and BASF have joined forces. NWO is co-founder and partner of this national organization.
Industrial production can be made sustainable. ARC CBBC brings together scientific excellence, and industrial research and development to learn how to do this. Together they are engaged in rethinking the design of the chemical building blocks that make up the products of our everyday lives.
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ARC CBBC investigates the routing of our manufacturing processes and the use of chemical products and processes, and examines this with a critical eye. Our public-private organisation, founded in 2016, unites universities, researchers, businesses and ministries and facilitates their close collaboration in multidisciplinary chemical, physical, materials and process technology research. All for the chemical building blocks of tomorrow.
The energy transition has become a major point of interest in our modern-day society. ARC CBBC considers the feedstock and materials transitions to be equally important. To ensure the success of all three transitions, we must look at them integrally. Our materials must be adapted to make them more durable, to expand their functionality, and to facilitate their recyclability at the end of their useful life. At the same time, we need to explore the possibility of using other feedstocks to produce our materials, and examine alternatives for the use of fossil fuels in our manufacturing processes, such as biomass or even CO2.
Maartje Otten, PhD candidate at Utrecht University, researches the recycling of plastics. She collaborates with BASF, Shell and Nobian and explores the possibility of breaking down plastics to their original building blocks in order to use these to manufacture new products, with new features to serve new purposes. This results in a unique link between fundamental research and its application, thus bringing the feedstock transition one step closer.
ARC CBBC is an open consortium, founded on the principles of academic need-to-know and industrial need-to-have, in which neither is inhibited by the other. Academic knowledge, boundless curiosity and horsepower is at our disposal, and the universities provide the requisite materials and equipment. Meanwhile, our industry partners warrant the need for practical application. Together, we have the capacity to accelerate circular solutions within the chemical industry.
George Hermens was a PhD candidate at ARC CBBC at the University of Groningen, and during his research, he developed a fully biobased paint. In collaboration with AkzoNobel, he reinvented the production route in order to facilitate the usage of not only biobased feedstock, but also biobased additives in the coating. This proves that fully biobased coatings are possible, and it is also a step towards upscaling towards application in our daily lives.
But ARC CBBC's research does not stop there. What if researchers could discover how to make coatings more durable, or how to give them self-repairing properties? What if we could use the harmful CO2 we emit every day, as feedstock for the production of chemicals? Can our researchers study, construct and improve catalysts? Can we use light as a thermometer? Can we develop new research tools?
ARC CBBC combines academic and industrial expertise to transform our vision of a sustainable chemical industry into a tangible reality. To find out more about the ARC CBBC, visit the main website: -cbbc.nl/ . 152ee80cbc
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