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Microalgae As a Green source for Nutritional Ingredients for Food/Feed and Ingredients for Cosmetics by cost-Effective New Technologies

Descrizione del progetto

Produrre microalghe in modo efficiente

Oltre a essere ricche di vitamine, fibre solubili, proteine, lipidi e minerali, le alghe e le microalghe sono anche fonti di abbondanti minerali e vitamine. Grazie alle loro speciali proprietà, sono inoltre una soluzione ideale per produrre ingredienti alimentari sostenibili, mangimi e cosmetici a basso costo. Eppure, oggigiorno questi vegetali sono sfruttati solo limitatamente a causa degli elevati costi di produzione che ne ostacolano la competitività. Il progetto MAGNIFICENT, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di risolvere il problema offrendo prodotti e applicazioni innovative per sfruttare appieno le opportunità offerte dalle alghe. Per raggiungere l’obiettivo, MAGNIFICENT migliorerà e ottimizzerà i processi di produzione, svilupperà e convaliderà nuove formulazioni di prodotti e condurrà un’accurata valutazione della filiera, del mercato, dell’impatto socio-economico e del ciclo di vita.

Obiettivo

Today there are only market opportunities for high value applications due to production costs, which are still too high to make microalgae a competitive feedstock for commodities. There is presently a large production capacity for a limited number of microalgae strains in Europe. However, the number of concrete products and market applications is still limited. The enlargement of current market applications for high-value microalgae ingredients will lead to new business opportunities, industrialize the technology and provide the knowledge and experience required to enter the medium- low value market within 5-10 years.
MAGNIFICENT will expand the range of commercial products and their market volume substantially and in a sustainable manner. The overall objective of the project is to develop and validate a sustainable and economically feasible new value chain based on cultivation and processing, with the aim to transform microalgae biomass into valuable ingredients for food, aquafeed and cosmetics applications. Development and validation of new product formulations of microalgae are included in the project
To achieve this, optimization will be done: 1) Upstream, cultivation related processes via adaptation and selection of algae varieties, improvement of growing conditions and target product concentration in the cell and 2) downstream process steps (separation, extraction, purification) in order to achieve the overall aim to maximise the production of compounds of interest (phospholipids rich in omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA and fucoxanthin as main molecules). The work will be supported by chain evaluation, market assessment, socio-economic impact assessment and LCA. Specific attention will be paid to the requirements of the existing EU regulatory framework.
The MAGNIFICENT consortium has 16 partners from 7 EU countries incl. 10 SME's, 3 LE's, 1 University and 2 RTO's, and comprises commercial partners in the entire value chain and the 3 target markets.

Coordinatore

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 377 040,00
Indirizzo
DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4
6708 PB Wageningen
Paesi Bassi

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Regione
Oost-Nederland Gelderland Veluwe
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 377 040,00

Partecipanti (17)