Acronym BIOALGAESORB
Category
Aquaculture
Title Enabling European SMEs to remediate wastes, reduce GHG emissions and produce biofuels via microalgae cultivation Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Research for SME Associations / Groupings
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
SME – Research for the benefit of SMEs
Specific Programme (FP7)
Capacities
Funding source European Coordinator Cato KJØLSTAD Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
NOBIO - Norwegian Bioenergy Association (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Bioenergy Europe (Belgium) ,
NA - British Trout Association Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
NA - Durham University (United Kingdom) ,
STI - National Institute of Technology (Norway) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
NA - Sea Marconi Technologies (Italy) ,
NA - Swansea University (United Kingdom) ,
UNIFI - University of Florence (Italy) ,
NA - Value for Technology BVBA (Belgium) ,
NA - Varicon Aqua Solutions Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2010 End year 2013 Funding (€) € 3,955,730 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/243752 Summary The BioAlgaeSorb collaboration will benefit European SME-AGs in diverse business sectors by developing technologies for remediating and valorising industrial and agricultural/aquaculture effluents via microalgae cultivation. The resultant microalgal biomass will form a carbon neutral, environmentally sustainable raw material that is a source for commercially valuable end products, among them renewable energy. The set task is to utilise unwanted effluents as nutrient sources for photosynthetic microalgae, thereby reducing effluent discharge by SMEs and yielding high quality biomass which will be harvested and upgraded using an integrated biorefinery approach into valuable products. Leading commercial systems for microalgae cultivation will be optimised for capturing inorganic nutrients from aqueous effluents (intensive agriculture and aquaculture; municipal anaerobic digesters) and CO2 from power plants, thereby mitigating the environmental impacts of these sectors and contributing to the European Low Carbon Economy via a new source of biomass-based biofuels, and by reducing the discharge of GHG to the atmosphere. Novel physical processes will be developed to efficiently harvest, stabilise and fractionate microalgae biomass for downstream conversion into valuable products. An innovative biorefinery approach will be adopted incorporating biomass pyrolysis (liquids, gas and char) for bioenergy and biofuel production, as well as separation into lipid, protein and carbohydrate fractions. Processes will be optimised for transforming micoalgal lipids into second generation transport fuels. Biomass extracts and purified compounds (e.g., omega 3 fatty acids, pigments) will also be developed for use as food and feed additives. A holistic approach will be used throughout the project, incorporating coupled process and financial models to guide the development of cost efficient microalgae-based remediation of effluents for large numbers of European SMEs.
Keywords
Land-based aquaculture;
Wastes;
Bioactive compounds;
Animal feed;
Waste valorization;
Human food;
Biofuel;
Bioprospecting;
Waste water;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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