Project description
Microalgae-based phycoremediation technology to remove wastewater pollutants
Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have doubled since pre-industrial times, primarily due to emissions from factories and transportation. This has led to the release of CO2 and industrial wastewater, polluting seas, lakes, and rivers and causing harm to biodiversity. In response, manufacturing companies are under pressure to reduce CO2 emissions and optimise energy usage. The EU-funded ALGBIO project aims to provide a circular economy model service to industries by proposing its phycoremediation technology. This technology uses microalgae to remove pollutants from wastewater and CO2 from waste air. With increased Rubisco enzyme activities, ALGBIO enhances the efficiency of carbon capture. The technology has the capability to remove up to 95 % of waste from industrial wastewater and sewage.
Objective
The level of CO2 in the atmosphere increased two times compared to the pre-industrial period. The biggest reasons for this are the flue gases of the factories and greenhouse gas emissions in transportation. Billion tons of industrial wastewater and CO2 from the same factories continue to destroy our biodiversity in sea/lakes/rivers because of mucilage, eutrophication, ocean acidification, and deoxygenation.
With global production sectors responsible for one-fifth of carbon emissions – consuming 54% of the world’s energy sources – there is an urgent need for manufacturing companies to minimize CO2 emissions and optimize energy consumption. ALGBIO provides production facilities and industry with a circular economy model service, where they can capture their carbon, purify their waste, and produce their energies and raw materials.
ALGBIO will help the industry lower the environmental impact of the wastewater and flue gasses while turning the waste into energy with its circular economy model and patent-pending technology.
ALGBIO’s bioremediation technology is called phycoremediation, which can be defined as the use of microalgae for the removal or biotransformation of pollutants, including nutrients and xenobiotics from wastewater and CO2 from waste air. Rubisco enzyme activities of ALGBIO's metabolic engineering algae species have been increased. In this way, ALGBIO realizes carbon capture more efficiently and cost-effectively. With advanced phycoremediation, ALGBIO can remove up to 95% of biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, nitrogen, phosphorus and conductivity from industrial wastewater and sewage compared to an un-efficient, carbon-positive conventional bacterial treatment.
The successful completion of the ALGBIO project will enable us to identify the pilot customers and implement our solution ALGBIO photobioreactors and ALGBIO biofuel production reactor after the project completion.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technology environmental engineering carbon capture engineering
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology biomaterials bioplastics
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology biomaterials biofuels
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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34870 Istanbul
Türkiye
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