Acronym SeaRefinary
Category
Aquaculture
Title The Seaweed Biorefinery – for high value added products Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Anne-Belinda Bjerre Coordinator email anbj@teknologisk.dk
Coordinator institution
DTI - Danish Technological Institute (Denmark)
Institutions involved
NA - Cybercolloids Ltd (Ireland) ,
NA - Hortimare BV (Netherlands) ,
NA - Marinox ehf (Iceland) ,
MTU - Munster Technological University (Ireland) ,
Centexbel - Scientific and Technical Research Centre of the Belgian Textile Industry (Belgium) ,
NA - Sioen Industries (Belgium) ,
NA - ViVoX ApS (Denmark) ,
Start year 2016 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 2,607,074 Website https://www.vliz.be/projects/marinebiotech/seaweed-biorefinery-%E2%80%93-high-value-added-products-searefinary.html Summary SeaRefinery will develop eco-friendly chemical and enzymatic processing technologies to extract and purify high value-added components such as antioxidants, antimicrobial components and hydrocolloids from cultivated seaweed species (e.g. Saccharina latissima) in an integrated biorefinery. Bioactive compounds, e.g. phlorotannins, fucoidan, and laminarin, will be selectively tested for bioactivity. In addition, laminarin and marine proteins will be tested in nutraceutical and selected food model systems. Alginate will be tested as additive for textile applications via coating and extrusion technologies. In order to maximise the value of the biorefinery feedstock (input) and derived products (output), we will grow monocultures on innovative textile cultivation substrates with high yield biomass production. Seasonal variation, replicated over two years, of the selected biomolecules will be a measuring tool for harvesting the seaweeds with maximum contents of bioactive compounds.
Keywords
Antimicrobials;
Biorefinery ;
Marine enzymes;
Nutraceutical substances;
Bioprospecting;
Bioactive compounds;
Protein;
Biomaterial;
Technology;
Human health;
Marine Region
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
3
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