Enzymes for Waste Valorisation & Resource Recovery
Enzymes for Waste Valorisation & Resource Recovery
Find a useful enzyme route for your processing residue. We screen complementary activities on your feedstock, compare recoverable sugars and other soluble fractions, and build a bespoke blend around the intended product and process economics.
Match the Enzyme Route to Your Feedstock
Cellulose-rich residues
- Target: Plant fibres and appropriate cellulose-rich processing residues.
- Solution: Evaluate cellulase and complementary hemicellulase activities.
- Optimisation: Measure sugar profiles, recovered product and residual solids.
Starch-bearing side streams
- Target: Accessible starch in suitable food or processing residues.
- Solution: Discuss amylase and glucoamylase for targeted conversion.
- Optimisation: Confirm sugar yield, downstream compatibility and cost per tonne.
Pectin-rich plant residues
- Target: Suitable fruit and vegetable processing side streams.
- Solution: Evaluate pectinase and supporting cell-wall activities.
- Optimisation: Compare soluble recovery, separation and product quality.
Choose Products for Your Evaluation
Compare these starting products under your process conditions, then refine the dose or commission a bespoke blend.
Plan Your Evaluation
Choose the product before choosing the blend
Screening should measure the material you want to recover, its quality and the separation route. Total soluble material alone does not establish a saleable product. When the target is ethanol or methane, continue to the dedicated Biofuels application page.
Your Feedstock. Your Conditions. Your Blend.
Compare enzyme options in parallel, then validate the strongest candidates in the process that matters to you.
Define the value you want to recover
Characterise the residue and intended product. Specify pretreatment, solids loading, separation and acceptance criteria.
Screen activities & blend ratios
Compare compatible enzyme combinations, doses and conditions. Measure released sugars or the target soluble fraction with controls.
Validate the recovery route
Confirm product quality, separation, residual solids and cost-in-use in representative batches before choosing the production blend.
The selected blend is based on measured feedstock performance and practical cost-in-use. Laboratory screening is followed by representative process validation.
Build Your Starting Blend with AI
Describe your material and operating conditions. This rule-based builder proposes an initial formulation for discussion; measured screening determines the final activities, ratios and dose.
Your process
Enter the key conditions.