Benoit Joffres
Then: I was at the end of my first year for my Master degree at the chemistry school of Mulhouse (France). I started to specialize in inorganic and polymer chemistry. Six months later, I was preparing catlysis or a research internship for biooil transesterification and I never quit working in the biobase area.
Now: I am process engineer in a company which offer an access to upscaling facilities for biomass based processes.
Inspirations: Many technologies are now poping up. Most of them still prensent low TRL, and some are fortunatly reaching the market. The number and the variety of those projects are always growing up. It is very motivating. I am looking forward to see one day a concret locally biobased industrial ecosystem: what we could call a biorefinery fed with local ressources produced sustainably and leading to a variety of products such as innovatives material, polymers, functionnalized molecules for chmistry, fuels, plastics…
Challenges: I think the one of the most important challenges is to develop new value chains economically valuables and using new kind of industrial infrastructures based on new technologies (especially for the pretreatment of biomass for example). It would help changing the industrial panorama. Supply chains needs also to be secured.
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