WP1 - Establish all overall specification and regulatory requirements: This work package focuses on collecting all research and development data and structuring it in a beneficial way. Process Flow Diagrams of all processes have been made, expert groups have been established and templates for creating a Validation Master Plan and User Requirement Specifications have been made. Six expert groups have been defined: 1) Process design, 2) Core building design, 3) Utilities and infrastructure, 4) Regulatory affairs / ESG / HSE, 5) Data management, and 6) Harvesting vessel. Together they cover the main areas that runs through the entire project period and lay the foundation for planning and building a complete value chain and production facility. A deliverable containing the templates for VMP and URS, as well as relevant PFDs, was submitted in February-21 in accordance with the project plan, and WP1 was then concluded.
WP2 - Functional and technical requirements and building lay-out: This work package focuses on further developing the template for User Requirement Specifications (URS) by adding Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Technical Requirement Specifications (TRS). 2D- and 3D-drawings for the demonstrator facility have been drafted based on valuable input from the project. Necessary regulations have also been mapped and the required documentation has been gathered and stored in a management system.
WP4: Production of intermediate product for supplier evaluation: This work package is responsible for producing the materials necessary to perform equipment tests with different suppliers. During the project, harvesting of raw material and processing into ASM (Alginor Starting Material) has happened at Alginor's own facilities, as well as smaller production of ingredients from the portfolio. Larger productions of ingredients have been performed at external piloting facilities.
WP5 - Project management: Work package 5 is an underlying work package that spans the entire project period and keeps track of time sheets, in-voices, necessary documents, spent and remaining project budget, as well as future investments. Alginor has created an extensive financial model that incorporates the information from the core work packages (1-4) and that shows the equipment needed in the different processes/facilities, before the costs are broken down into a 36-month interval that shows which month the investments must be placed based on expected delivery time. As equipment has been ordered throughout the project the financial model is tied to all necessary information, such as actual cost vs. budgeted, in-voices and document numbers, delivery times and delays etc.
that shows which month the investments must be placed based on expected delivery time. As equipment is being ordered throughout the project the financial model will be tied to all necessary information, such as actual cost vs. budgeted, in-voices and document numbers, delivery times and delays etc.
