CHEERS: Producing novel non-plant biomass feedstocks and bio-based products through upcycling and the cascading use of brewery side-streams

生物技术有可能减少人类活动对自然的影响。通过开发新的生物基生产平台，更有效地利用废物流，可以实现工业循环的一步。CHEERS是一个新的生物精炼概念，灵感来自自然生物多样性（昆虫和微生物平台），可持续和有效地升级未充分利用或废物侧流，如甘蔗渣，废水，二氧化碳和甲烷从生物基工业到创新的生物基产品。CHEERS将帮助生物基工业通过升级循环和级联使用其支流生产的生物质来提高其原料使用效率和整体可持续性和竞争力。CHEERS是一个模块化的解决方案，生物基工业可以通过选择5种新型生物技术路线来配置最佳组合，这些路线产生5种生物基产品用于工业应用，具有吸引人的市场机会：昆虫蛋白，消毒剂，微生物蛋白，ecotoine和己酸。所有价值链都基于新的生物工艺和/或创新的生物发酵罐与可持续的下游工艺相结合，这些工艺将在工业啤酒厂的示范规模上得到验证。每个价值链的碳足迹将减少至少45%。对CHEERS影响的评估将超越传统的LCA，并将涵盖更广泛的影响，如生物多样性和土地使用。啤酒公司MAHOU是项目协调员，与来自5个欧洲国家的11个合作伙伴合作，包括技术供应商，最终用户和研究实体。CHEERS将促进“零废物”生物炼制方法，完全符合欧盟绿色交易，循环经济行动计划和生物经济战略，并通过相关行为者的参与，从小型生物基工业到消费者，促进对生物技术价值链的理解。

Biotechnology has the potential to reduce the impact of human activities in nature. By developing new bio-based production platforms towards a more efficient use of waste streams, a step forward in industrial circularity can be achieved. CHEERS is a new biorefinery concept, inspired on nature biodiversity (insect and microbial platforms), to upgrade sustainably and efficiently underused or waste side streams such as bagasse, wastewater, CO2 and CH4 from bio-based industries into innovative bio-based products. CHEERS will help bio-based industries to improve their feedstock use efficiency and overall sustainability and competitiveness via upcycling and cascading the use of biomass produced from their side-streams. CHEERS is developed as a modular solution where bio-based industries can configure the optimal combination by selecting among 5 novel biotechnological routes which generate 5 bio-based products for industrial applications, with attractive market opportunities: insect protein, disinfectant, microbial protein, ecotoine and caproic acid. All value chains are based on new bioprocesses and/or innovative bio fermenters combined with sustainable downstream processes, which will be validated at demo-scale at an industrial brewery. A min. 45% carbon footprint reduction will be achieved in each value chain. The evaluation of CHEERS impacts will go beyond the classic LCA and will cover broader impacts such as biodiversity and land use. The beer company MAHOU is project coordinator working with 11 partners of 5 European countries, including technology suppliers, end-users and research entities. CHEERS will contribute to a “zero waste” biorefinery approach, fully aligned with the EU Green Deal, Circular Economy Action Plan and Bioeconomic Strategy, and foster the understanding of biotechnology-based value chains through the engagement of relevant actors, from small bio-based industries to consumers.