Dairy industry waste as source for sustainable polymeric material production

Project Information

WHEYPOL

Grant agreement ID: G5RD-CT-2001-00591

Project closed

Start date 1 December 2001

End date 30 November 2004

Funded under

• Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002"

Total cost € 1 666 582,00

EU contribution € 1 268 682,00

Coordinated by

GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Austria

Objective

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biologically synthesized and biodegradable polyesters that may substitute fossil oil-derived plastics. A new process for sustainable production of PHAs with controlled composition to be used as key components in the design and production of biodegradable plastic packaging items is proposed. Whey, a European wide surplus and waste material from dairy industry will be taken as cheap feed stock for the process. After assessment of raw materials and PHA producing bacterial strains, the biotechnological process will be optimized as well as polyester extraction, using nontoxic inexpensive solvents. Purified PHA will be chemically and physically characterized and, guided by the industrial converter partners and end-user needs, an integrated production process for novel biodegradable plastics dedicated to environmentally friendly packaging and containers, meeting the EC-directive 62/94, will be the ultimate project goal.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• agricultural sciences › animal and dairy science › dairy
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › sustainable economy
• engineering and technology › industrial biotechnology › biomaterials › bioplastics › polyhydroxyalkanoates

Programme(s)

• FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.3.-5. - RTD Activities of a Generic Nature : materials and their technologies for production and transformation and new and improved materials and production technologies in the steel field

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Petersgasse 12 ; 8010 GRAZ ; Austria
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Participants (10)

BDI ANLAGEBAU GES.M.B.H

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Eduard-Ast-Strasse 1 ; 8073 FELDKIRCHEN BEI GRAZ
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CENTRE OF POLYMER CHEMISTRY - POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Poland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: M. Curie Sklodowskiej Str. 34 ; 41 800 ZABRZE
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GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 25,Inffeldgasse 25 ; 8010 GRAZ
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IDROPLAX S.R.L

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via E. Toti 70 ; 51016 MONTECATINI TERME
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LATTERIE VICENTINE SCARL

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via S. Benedetto 4 ; 36050 BOLZANO VICENTINO
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY

Slovenia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Hajdrihova 19 ; 1000 LJUBLJANA
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POLYMER INSTITUTE OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Slovakia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Dubravska cesta 9 ; 84236 BRATISLAVA
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SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Slovakia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 9,Radlinskeho 9 ; 812 37 BRATISLAVA
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UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Strada Romea 16 ; 35020 ALBIGNASEGO
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UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PISA

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Risorgimento 35 ; 56100 PISA
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