Acronym NewPolySea
Category
Fisheries
Title Biovalorization of Marine Raw Rest Materials into Polyhydroxyalkanoate-Based Products Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Jacobus Johannes Eksteen Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NOVA - New University of Lisbon (Portugal) ,
NA - Norner A/S (Norway) ,
NORUT - Northern Research Institute (Norway) ,
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (Norway) ,
Start year 2017 End year 2021 Funding (€) € 843,037 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/267618?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=60&TemaEmne.2=Kunnskapsbasert+n%C3%A6ringsutvikling Summary "Plastic waste is a growing global problem, especially in the oceans. Solutions are urgently needed to mitigate this problem, and is subsequently a focus area for governments, NGOs and research groups in several countries.
Marine plastic waste is also a major problem for Norway. The plastic waste poses a threat to all marine life, which in the long term can have devastating consequences for the country's fisheries and aquaculture industry. Another challenge in the fishing industryis the huge quantities (about 630.00 tonnes) of raw material that are not utilized annually.
The NewPolySea project seeks to address both challenges simultaneously. In the project the possibility of converting unutilized marine raw rest materials into a type of bioplastic, called polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), using marine bacteria.
To achieve this goal a strong multinational and multidisciplinary team of industrial microbiologists, polymer chemists, environmental scientists, as well as business developers and industrial advisers has been assembled. The project has been divided into various work packages and several of these are currently in progress. Different ways of preparing the RRMs for fermentation and different fermentation processes are being evaluated.
The project was completed in December 2020 and it clearly demonstrated that marine rest raw materials can indeed be converted into PHA. Further R&D is still required to develop this proof-of-concept further toward commercialization. Follow-up studies are currently being planned.
In the NewPolySea project it was demonstrated that unutilized rest raw materials (RRMs) from the Norwegian fishing industry can indeed be used to produced polyhydroxyalkanoates. Different types of PHA polymers could be produced and it depended on (i) which fraction of the RRM was used as feedstock, and (ii) on which fermentation strategy. Much R&D work still remains before the developed technologies can be commercialized, but this project built a broad platform for the required follow-up studies."
Keywords
Bioprospecting;
Biomaterial;
Fishing industry;
Biopolymer;
Waste valorization;
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