Decarbonising F&B sectors and animal feed production using engineered biological consortia applying circular principles

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• 批准号: 10075214
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: PROTIOMIX LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10075214
• 关键词: Decarbonising; F&B; sectors; animal; feed

Livestock production has been gravely affected due to increased costs of feed due to unavailability from logistical disruptions and other issues. Significant proportion of the agricultural based emissions are based on feed emissions and impact from the ingestion of low-grade feed resulting in eructations/belching. Breweries , greenhouses and vertical farms are highly emissive but relatively small scale emitters compared to coal/cement/glass plants. We aim to address several of these issues whilst providing large-scale impact working with several small scale emitters, solving their problems whilst reducing our operating costs in the process. The project is based on using novel engineered biology approaches in a circular economy manner by Protiomix(www.protiomix.com). We have engineered a novel feed based on using industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing approach.Using state of the art biotechnology, our process utilises co-products from the F&B industry whilst providing sufficient resilience to contamination using our stable solution . This system is capable of sequestering CO2 during production and grows 3-4 fold faster compared to conventional systems , which then decarbonises endusers such as breweries (direct carbon capture) whilst indirectly reducing emissions (feed substitution, reduced emissions due to higher nutritional density feed). Our novel approach is synergistically enhanced by partnering with a novel production and downstream separation partner (Reepel, subcontractor, www.reepel.co.uk) capable of significantly reducing costs using their proprietary microbubble technology.Their disinfection technology provides 5-7 log (pharmaceutical grade) disinfection which enables ability to utilise feedstock from by-products/wastewater in breweries and vertical farm/greenhouse run-off(spent media).Our approach for this project is to de-risk the process by testing feed outputs for multiple feedstocks from breweries and vertical farms/greenhouses. Any modifications or additions to the consortia to increase robustness of the system would be performed here. Testing and recording product growth, composition and subsequent feed quality/assessment enables strong de-risking possibility, which enables fundraising and scale up. The subsequent assessment and scale-up has been agreed by the investor who will fund a 30tpa production system post successful project completion, thereby delivering rapid impact. Reepel as a subcontractor would be able to provide small scale reactor(larger than bench scale - 50-200L) as part of the project work to develop the process and generate some technical data for appropriate next stage of development. The process was developed with a view to help multiple sectors, whilst providing a fiscally rewarding output using core strengths of UK developed biology, engineering science, and deeptech processing thereby maintaining and furthering UK-based offerings.

由于物流中断和其他问题，饲料成本增加，牲畜生产受到严重影响。农业排放的很大一部分是基于饲料排放和摄入低级饲料导致打嗝/打嗝的影响。啤酒厂、温室和垂直农场的排放量很高，但与煤/水泥/玻璃厂相比，规模相对较小。我们的目标是解决其中的几个问题，同时提供大规模的影响与几个小规模的发射器，解决他们的问题，同时降低我们的运营成本的过程中。该项目基于Protiomix（www.protiomix.com）以循环经济的方式使用新的工程生物学方法。我们利用工业生物技术和生物加工方法设计了一种新型饲料。我们的工艺采用最先进的生物技术，利用F&B行业的副产品，同时使用我们稳定的解决方案提供足够的抗污染能力。该系统能够在生产过程中封存二氧化碳，与传统系统相比，其增长速度快3-4倍，然后使啤酒厂等终端用户脱碳（直接碳捕获），同时间接减少排放（饲料替代，由于更高的营养密度饲料而减少排放）。通过与新型生产和下游分离合作伙伴（Reepel，分包商，www.reepel.co.uk）的合作，我们的新方法得到了协同增强，该合作伙伴能够使用其专有的微泡技术显著降低成本。他们的消毒技术提供5-7 log（药用级）消毒，能够利用啤酒厂的副产品/废水和垂直农场/温室径流（废培养基）中的原料。我们对该项目的方法是通过测试啤酒厂和垂直农场/温室中多种原料的饲料输出来降低工艺风险。任何修改或增加的财团，以增加系统的鲁棒性将在这里进行。测试和记录产品生长、成分和随后的饲料质量/评估，使降低风险的可能性大大增加，从而能够筹集资金并扩大规模。随后的评估和规模扩大已得到投资者的同意，投资者将在项目成功完成后为30吨/年的生产系统提供资金，从而迅速产生影响。作为分包商，Reepel将能够提供小规模反应器（大于实验室规模- 50- 200 L），作为项目工作的一部分，以开发工艺，并为下一阶段的适当开发生成一些技术数据。该过程的开发旨在帮助多个部门，同时利用英国开发的生物学，工程科学和深技术加工的核心优势提供有利可图的产出，从而维护和促进英国的产品。