Description du projet
La technologie de phycoremédiation à base de microalgues pour générer des bioproduits
Le niveau de CO2 atmosphérique a fortement augmenté depuis l’ère préindustrielle, principalement en raison des émissions des usines. Le rejet des eaux usées est responsable de la pollution des sources d’eau et nuit à la biodiversité. Les entreprises manufacturières sont donc contraintes de réduire leurs émissions de CO2 et d’optimiser leur utilisation de l’énergie. Le projet ALGBIO, financé par l’UE, entend fournir un modèle d’économie circulaire aux industries en proposant sa technologie de phycoremédiation pour produire des biocarburants et des bioplastiques à base d’algues. Cette technologie utilise des microalgues pour éliminer les polluants des eaux usées tout en capturant le CO2. La solution d’ALGBIO éloignera lentement les industries d’une économie basée sur le pétrole, en proposant des alternatives durables.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringcarbon capture engineering
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbioplastics
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuels
Mots‑clés
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinateur
34870 Istanbul
Turquie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.