Acronym Mar3Bio
Category
Fisheries
Title Biorefinery and biotechnological exploitation of marine biomasses 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 Håvard Sletta Coordinator email Havard.Sletta@sintef.no
Coordinator institution
SINTEF MC - SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - FMC Biopolymer AS
(Norway) ,
MATIS - Matis Ltd (Iceland) ,
KI - National Institute of Chemistry (Slovenia) ,
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) ,
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) ,
UNITS - University of Trieste (Italy) ,
Start year 2016 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 3,378,920 Website https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/mar3bio/ Summary The marine biomasses to be used in Mar3Bio are brown algae and crustacean byproducts. These abundant but underexploited renewable biomasses have great potential for production of high value biomolecules. The current bottlenecks for a bio-refinery focusing on these raw materials are low yields, high energy consumption and incomplete spectrum of recovered biomolecules. Mar3Bio will tackle this by a multidisciplinary and intersectorial R&D approach, and contribute to the development of efficient and sustainable bio-refinery processes for exploitation of the selected biomasses. The main objective is to advance technology beyond state-of-the-art to I) increase the yield and quality of the products arising from early process streams by optimizing the isolation and fractionation steps performed on the raw materials, and II) modify selected fractionated biomolecules to high value products. The expected achievements will have great impact on the fulfilment of the ambitions of ERA-MarineBiotech.
Keywords
Marine enzymes;
Byproducts;
Process efficiency;
Crustacean;
Bioproduct;
Biorefinery ;
Waste valorization;
Shellfish;
Shrimp;
Bioprospecting;
Marine Region
5
Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
6
Central North Sea (27.IVb)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
3
Marine Region Map
