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.

REALM 将通过以更低的成本生产微藻，同时处理水和捕获空气中的二氧化碳，将无土农场中营养丰富的排水转化为价值。这一概念将提高微藻生产和无土农业的循环性和盈利能力。 NordAqua 和 ALGACYCLE 项目（分别为 NordForsk 和 EEA）已经在芬兰和葡萄牙展示了这一概念的可行性，现在 REALM 的目标是在工业规模上展示它。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) 的专业知识，这些设施将利用温室中富含营养的废水，在浊度稳定状态（连续收获）下运行光生物反应器，以实现最大生产力。生长和收获装置将由光伏能源供电，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协助生产。微藻生物质将由当地下游加工单位使用乳制品行业供应链作为工作模式进行加工。这一概念将通过闭合营养循环为农民提供可持续的废水处理技术，预计将微藻生产成本降低50%以上，节省的成本将用于提高拟议的微藻产品（即农用化学品和水产饲料）的竞争力。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，并连接到集中处理设施。 REALM 产生的结果将被传播，以便所有欧盟的相关利益相关者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，例如与自然合作，通过促进绿色产业来改善人类健康。