Carnot 3BCAR
3BCAR Carnot Institute mobilizes two key levers for Bioeconomy emergence: Biotechnologies and Green chemistry; gathering multidisciplinary approaches from biomass production, biorefinery until functional properties. Circular economy is considered by waste and byproducts valorization, cascading uses and eco-design.
Competences
Core business
Hight competences
Key figures
| Permanent staff (full-time equivalent) | 1082 |
| including PhD Students | 305 |
| Global budget | 81,2 M€ |
| Partnership incomes with industry | 26,7 M€ |
Contact
Jean TAYEB,
Director
Nathalie TURC,
Deputy Director
Coralline CAULLET
Business developer
Parent institutions
- AgroParisTech
- Aix Marseille Université
- Bordeaux INP Aquitaine
- CATAR – CRITT AGRORESSOURCES
- CEA
- CNRS
- CIRAD
- INP Toulouse
- INRA
- INRA Transfert
- INSA Toulouse
- ITERG
- Montpellier Supagro
- Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
- Université de Montpellier
- Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- Université de Bordeaux
Presentation
Bioeconomy: a model for the future
Faced with diverse actual challenges (sustainable development, fossil resources depletion, climate change…), Bioeconomy is recognised in Europe as a model for the future. Based on production from biological renewable resources conversion, this economical strategy benefits from both technological and systemic approaches.
3BCAR : a multidisciplinary competencies offer
• Plant biomass production with enhanced properties
• Biomass fractionation and biorefinery
• Functionalisation for obtaining building blocks
• Bioproducts formulation and shaping
• Process ecodesign and Production sustainability
Target markets
- Biomass production (crops, microalgaes) and plant biotechnologies
- Biorefinery
- Industrial biotechnologies
- Green chemistry: lubricants, surfactants, solvents
- Fine chemistry: cosmetic and biologically active molecules
- Bioenergies: biofuel, biogas
- Biobased materials
- Ferments and enzymes
- Environment and waste valorization
- Agro-industry
- Territories management
From biomass ... until functional properties
Légendes des photos : Microorganisms culture in bioactor - ©INRA/Maitre Christophe ; Plants in high-throughout phenotyping system - ©INRA/Nicolas Bertrand ; Analysys of materials'mechanical properties - ©INRA/Ponchet Michel.
Our engagements to facilitate partnership
A french structured R&D network, from laboratory to pilote scale
- Skills and technological capacities to support partners climbing on TRL scale, from upstream research in laboratory until pilote scale, around TRL level 6.
- 12 research laboratories, 4 centers for technological resources (CRT Bio, CATAR, GPTE, ITE), 1 preindustrial demonstrator (TWB), 1 industrial technical center (ITERG)
