Reusing Effluents from Agriculture to unLock the potential of Microalgae

重复利用农业废水释放微藻的潜力

• 批准号: 10040410
• 金额: $ 15.77万
• 依托单位: DECERNA LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10040410
• 关键词: Reusing; Effluents; Agriculture; unLock; potential

REALM will transform nutrient-rich drain waters from soilless farms into value, by producing microalgae at reduced costs while treating water and capturing CO2 from the air. This concept will increase the circularity and profitability of microalgal production and soilless farming. The NordAqua and ALGACYCLE projects (NordForsk and EEA, respectively) have shown the feasibility of this concept in Finland and Portugal, and now REALM aimsto demonstrate it at an industrialscale. Accordingly, two validation facilities will be installed in the Netherlands and Finland, and two demonstration facilities will be deployed in Portugal and Spain near soilless greenhouses. With know-how from the SABANA project (H2020), these facilities will operate photobioreactors under a turbidostatic regime (continuous harvest) for maximum productivity, using nutrient-rich wastewaters from the greenhouses. Growth and harvesting units will be powered by photovoltaic energy and automatically managed by novel sensors, while A.I.-based predictive models and a cloud-based monitoring system will assist production. Microalgal biomass will be processed by local downstream processing units using dairy industry supply chain as a working model. This concept will offersustainable wastewater treatment technology to farmers by closing the nutrient loop and is expected to reduce microalgae production costs by >50%, whose savings will be used to increase the competitiveness of the proposed microalgae-based products, namely agrochemicals and aquafeed. A business model will be developed to propose the installation of multiple microalgae production facilities, next to soilless greenhouses, and connected to a centralised processing facility. The results generated by REALM will be disseminated so the demonstrated concept can be replicated by relevant stakeholders in all EU, while targeting several objectives established by the European Green Deal, such as working with nature to improve human health by promoting a greener industry.

王国将通过以更低的成本生产微藻，同时处理水和从空气中捕获二氧化碳，将无土农场的营养丰富的排水转化为价值。这一概念将增加微藻生产和无土养殖的循环性和盈利能力。NordAqua和ALGACYCLE项目(分别是NORDFORSK和EEA)已经在芬兰和葡萄牙证明了这一概念的可行性，现在领域的目标是在工业规模上证明这一概念。因此，将在荷兰和芬兰安装两个验证设施，并在葡萄牙和西班牙无土温室附近部署两个示范设施。凭借Sabana项目(H2020)的技术诀窍，这些设施将利用温室中营养丰富的废水，在止浊状态(连续收获)下运行光生物反应器，以最大限度地提高生产率。生长和收获单元将由光伏能源供电，并由新型传感器自动管理，而基于人工智能的预测模型和基于云的监控系统将帮助生产。微藻生物质将由当地下游加工单位以乳业供应链为工作模式进行加工。这一概念将通过关闭营养循环向农民提供可持续的废水处理技术，并有望将微藻生产成本降低50%，节省的成本将用于提高拟议的微藻产品的竞争力，即农用化学品和水产饲料。将开发一种商业模式，建议在无土温室旁边安装多个微藻生产设施，并连接到一个中央处理设施。REAL产生的成果将被传播，这样所有欧盟的相关利益攸关方都可以复制所展示的概念，同时瞄准欧洲绿色协议确立的几个目标，例如通过促进更绿色的产业与自然合作来改善人类健康。