Project description
Transforming industrial biowaste into zero-cost feedstocks
Despite its high potential for valorisation, food processing industry waste is often discarded in landfills and sewers where it contributes to harmful methane gas emissions. To address this, the EU-funded GoodByO project aims to promote circular economy practices by establishing a sustainable, energy-independent biorefinery that converts food processing waste into high-value bio-based products. Leveraging the metabolic capabilities of microbial catalysts, it will transform liquid and gaseous secondary streams of organic residues, biogenic CO2 and bioprocess wastewater into valuable feedstocks to replace fossil- and palm oil-based products. To improve the overall environmental performance, it will also design an energy system based entirely on renewable sources to meet the biorefinery’s energy demands.
Objective
GoodByO seeks at creating a new generation multi-commodities biorefinery based on food waste, biogenic CO2, and bioprocess wastewaters for resource-efficient valorization of sustainable feedstocks. GoodByO will apply this visionary concept at ChainCraft BV bio-plant by valorizing its gaseous and liquid side-streams as zero-cost feedstocks. By exploiting the metabolic diversity of microbial catalysts, four different microbial factories (MF) will be developed: -MF1: open culture chain elongation process for bio-octanoic acid production; -MF2: gas fermentation process for bio-hexanol production from biogas and green H2; -MF3: novel anaerobic photoautotrophic biogas desulfurization process; - MF4: wastewaters-based mixotrophic microalgal process for high-value carotenoids production. The project target relies in the validation of long-term production stability of the developed bioprocesses at TRL5, using real feedstocks, to provide transferable outcomes for further scale-up at higher TRLs. GoodByO will also design an in silico 100% renewable energy system capable of sustaining the fluctuating demand of the integrated biorefinery over time, by adopting biomethanation process as grid-balancing system. GoodByO targets to produce biobased products meeting market requirements at cost-competitive selling price with benchmarks, to boost end users companies in substituting fossil- and palm-oil based products with biobased ones. The successful scale-up and the market penetration of GoodByO processes will strongly increase EU global leadership in the Manufacturing biotech-Industry while advancing CO2-utilizing biotechnologies for developing a carbon-negative economy.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology bioprocessing technologies fermentation
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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HORIZON.2.6.6 - Bio-based Innovation Systems in the EU Bioeconomy
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HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023
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16163 Genova
Italy
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