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.

领域将通过以降低的成本生产微藻并从空中捕获二氧化碳，从而将富含营养的排水水从Soilless农场转变为价值。这个概念将提高微藻生产和耕作的循环和盈利能力。 Nordaqua和Algacycle Projects（Nordforsk和EEA）分别显示了这一概念在芬兰和葡萄牙的可行性，现在领域Aimsto在工业范围内证明了这一点。因此，将在荷兰和芬兰安装两个验证设施，并将在Soilless温室附近部署两个示范设施。借助Sabana项目（H2020）的专业知识，这些设施将使用来自Greenhouses的营养丰富的废水，在浊度状态（连续收获）下运行最大生产率。生长和收获单元将由光伏能源提供动力，并由新型传感器自动管理，而基于AI的预测模型和基于云的监测系统将有助于生产。微藻生物质将通过使用乳制品行业供应链作为工作模型的本地下游处理单元进行处理。该概念将通过关闭营养循环为农民提供可限的废水处理技术，并有望将微藻生产成本降低> 50％，其储蓄将用于提高拟议的基于微藻的产品的竞争力，即Agrochemicals和Aquafeed。将开发商业模型，以提议在Soilless温室旁边安装多个微藻生产设施，并连接到集中的加工设施。领域产生的结果将被传播，以便所有欧盟的利益相关者可以复制所证明的概念，同时针对欧洲绿色协议建立的几个目标，例如与自然合作，通过促进绿色行业来改善人类健康。