The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

Shell4BioA
Marine Biotechnology
Seafood Processing
Bio-based amines from marine shells waste through catalytic sustainable processes
National Programme
National
Andreia Peixoto
andreia.peixoto@fc.up.pt
UP - University of Porto (Portugal)
FARM-ID - Faculty of Pharmacy Research and Development Association (Portugal), 
2022
2023
€ 49,802
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Shrimp shell residues, which usually go to landfills, will be used to produce amines, which can be used in the production of pharmaceuticals, plastics, detergents and many other things. These residues are rich in nitrogen, offering an excellent opportunity to obtain various types of amines in a sustainable way, which are currently only produced in industry from petroleum. Several extraction and conversion processes of one of the constituents of the bark, chitin, into bioderived amines are already underway in the laboratories of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of FCUP. The project will focus on for the processing of shrimp shells, provided by Mar Cabo. The peels are placed in pressurized water at temperatures of around 250ºC and an extract and a solid residue are obtained which, after thermal treatments, can be used as a catalyst that will accelerate chemical reactions for the sustainable transformation of chitin and derivatives into amines.
Crustacean; Shellfish; Bioactive compounds; Shrimp; Bioprospecting; Pharmaceuticals; Human health; Nutraceutical substances; Biomaterial; Waste valorization; Biopolymer;
Not associated to marine areas
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