Project description
Four municipalities set up first photobiorefinery in the EU
End-users from four municipalities – two in Spain and another two in the Moravia-Silesia region of Czechoslovakia – will create a consortium to transform diluted urban bio-waste into sustainable bio-products including cosmetics, fertilisers, packaging and self-repairing construction materials. The DEEP PURPLE project will set up and implement at a single site the first Purple Phototropic Bacteria biorefinery in the EU. Targeted to be the largest in the world, this production chain will have a processing capacity of 422 t/y of organic fraction municipal solid waste. This will engage communities to create new value and new opportunities, reduce landfill, raise solids recovery to 71 % and replace current polluting practices.
Objective
DEEP PURPLE creates a holistic consortium to transform diluted urban bio-wastes, including mixed waste streams, organicfraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW), wastewater (WW) and sewage sludge (SS), into feedstock for bio-industry toobtain sustainable bio-products. This revolutionary concept will be implemented in a novel Single-Site Multi-Platform Concept (Biomass, Cellulose and Biogas) to replace current polluting destructive practices with new value added concepts.
The beneficial use of bio-waste is obtained by an innovative combination of optimized recovery technologies and novel solutions: the Purple Phototrophic Bacteria (PPB) PhotoBiorefinery. The use of PPB -the most versatile metabolismreported- ensures the adaption to fluctuating and diluted waste streams to support a stable and profitable production chain. Thefirst PPB PhotoBiorefinery in the EU (the biggest worldwide) will be validated in different environmental, economic, logisticand social scenarios.
The concept will be implemented by end-users from four municipalities, namely Madrid (ES), Toledo (ES), and the Moravia-Silesia Region(CZ) to transform bio-wastes (OFMSW: 422 t/y, mixed waste: 438,000 m3/y) into high-added value bioproducts:fine chemicals (bio-cosmetics), fertilizers, bio-packaging and self-repairing construction materials. The marketuptake of DEEP PURPLE is facilitated by optimal logistics of bio-wastes conversion (reduction of landfilled OFMSW: 60%, WWTP, solids recovery: 71%), and bio-products quality to favor their commercialization (440 t/y). The integration of valuechains is boosted by relevant stakeholder’s participation and innovative business models, minimizing waste and maximizingbenefits (85 M€ benefits, GHG emissions savings: 11,300 tCO2eq/y in 2025). Key communities (social engagementstrategies) will participate in the new value creation, calibrating the returns of the project like social innovation promotion and creation of new opportunities along the urban value cycle.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriology
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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28016 Madrid
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Participants (18)
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709 00 Ostrava
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41007 Sevilla
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CV2 2JT COVENTRY
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46185 La Pobla De Vallbona
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14120 Mondeville
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08007 Barcelona
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46980 Paterna
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UB8 3PH Uxbridge
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28100 Novara
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28100 Novara No
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28933 Mostoles
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1140 Wien
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28004 Madrid
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2800 Kgs Lyngby
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47002 VALLADOLID
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47002 Valladolid
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35400 Saint-Malo
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28016 Madrid
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