Oceanium: Biorefining UK seaweed to produce sustainable functional protein products

Oceanium：生物精炼英国海藻以生产可持续的功能性蛋白质产品

• 批准号: 10030074
• 金额: $ 24.45万
• 依托单位: OCEANIUM LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10030074
• 关键词: Oceanium; Biorefining; UK; seaweed; produce

Seaweed is receiving unprecedented levels of interest in the UK and Europe, with extensive, nutrient-rich coastlines and world-leading expertise in biotechnology innovation, marine science, and aquaculture. Seaweed is highly productive and does not compete for land resources or consume freshwater, fertilisers, or pesticides. Kelp extracts offer an attractive alternative food source, comprising protein, fibre, minerals, vitamins, and bioactive compounds.The nascent European sustainably farmed seaweed industry has potential to accelerate from 1,450 tonnes/year (2019) to over 8 million tonnes/year by 2030, creating 115,000 jobs and scaling the European seaweed industry to £8.0billion/year.Oceanium is a female-led start-up with a vision to become the world's largest processor of sustainably farmed seaweed, establishing Build-Own-Operate seaweed biorefineries in the UK, Europe, and North America. We have developed an innovative seaweed biorefinery process, which extracts maximum value from sustainably farmed kelp by co-extracting food ingredients, high-value nutraceuticals, and biopackaging materials.We are leading the development of UK, European, and North American sustainably farmed seaweed industries, as founding members of Seaweed for Europe and active members of the Safe Seaweed Coalition. In 2022, we will purchase around 140 tonnes of sustainably farmed seaweed from the UK, Ireland, France, Norway, and Faroe Islands, representing c10% of European sustainably farmed seaweed supply. We measure our impact against 6 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our investors include the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Green Angel Syndicate, and Kingfisher Capital. In the last year, we have grown our team from 8 to 17 people and are currently recruiting for 2 more positions.With Innovate UK funding, we will adapt our biorefinery process to extract high-purity functional proteins from kelp and explore the potential of a new, supplementary biorefinery feedstock, waste sea lettuce. Sea lettuce has higher protein content than kelp, up to 33% (dry weight) compared to up to 20%. Sea lettuce blooms appear across the UK coastline and are a growing concern, driven by climate change and coastal eutrophication. Blooms are unsightly, smelly, and hazardous, impacting local biodiversity and the tourist trade, even forcing beach closures. Multiple coastal local authorities (including Jersey, Poole, Torbay, and Thanet) pay to collect sea lettuce for disposal via land-spreading, composting, landfill, or dumping at sea. Sea lettuce is often too contaminated to spread on farmland, while composting, landfill, and sea-dumping are expensive. By extracting protein from sea lettuce, Oceanium will transform waste into value, protecting our coastline and meeting demand for next-generation alternative proteins.

Seaweed在英国和欧洲获得了前所未有的兴趣水平，具有广泛，营养丰富的海岸线以及生物技术创新，海洋科学和水产养殖方面的世界领先专业知识。海藻生产力很高，没有争夺土地资源或消耗淡水，肥料或农药。海带提取物提供了一种有吸引力的替代食品来源，它可以完成蛋白质，纤维，矿物质，维生素和生物活性化合物。 The nascent European sustainably farmed seaweed industry has potential to accelerate from 1,450 tonnes/year (2019) to over 8 million tonnes/year by 2030, creating 115,000 jobs and scaling the European seaweed industry to £8.0billion/year.Oceanium is a female-led start-up with a vision to become the world's largest processor of sustainably farmed seaweed, establishing Build-Own-Operate seaweed biorefineries in the英国，欧洲和北美。我们开发了一种创新的海藻生物融资过程，该过程通过共同提取食品吸引人，高价值的营养材料和生物包装材料来从可持续的养殖海带中提取最大价值。我们将领导英国，欧洲和北美可持续农业的海藻行业的开发，以欧洲为欧洲的Seaweed和Active Seavition Seavition of Seaweed Contition of Europe and Seaweed Colitition of Seaweed Colition of Seaweed Colition of Seaweed Colitition。 2022年，我们将从英国，爱尔兰，法国，挪威和法罗群岛购买约140吨可持续养殖的海藻，占欧洲可持续养殖的海藻供应的C10％。我们衡量对6个联合国可持续发展目标的影响。我们的投资者包括世界野生动物基金会（WWF），绿色天使集团和翠鸟资本。在去年，我们将团队从8人增加到17人，目前正在招募2个职位。在英国创新的资金中，我们将适应我们的生物融资过程，以从海带中提取高纯度功能性蛋白质，并探索一种新的，补充的补充生物融资原料的潜力。海洋生菜的蛋白质含量高于海带，高达33％（干重），而多达20％。在英国海岸线上出现了海洋生菜盛开，这是气候变化和沿海富营养化驱动的日益关注的问题。盛开难看，臭和危险，影响了当地的生物多样性和旅游贸易，甚至迫使海滩关闭。多个沿海地区当局（包括泽西岛，普尔，托尔贝和塔内特）付费，以收集生菜，以通过土地蔓延，作曲，垃圾填埋或在海上倾销。海洋生菜经常被过于污染，无法在农田上散布，同时构成，垃圾填埋场和降雨量很昂贵。通过从海洋生菜中提取蛋白质，海洋将使废物变成价值，保护我们的海岸线并满足对下一代替代蛋白质的需求。