Newton Fund - PhycoPigment: Novel manufacturing methods for high value pigments products from microalgae

PhycoPigment是英国和墨西哥的学术界和工业界的合作，旨在开发一系列高价值蛋白质基水溶性色素的新生产技术，从实验室到示范。这将涉及在一系列光生物反应器中研究微藻生产方法，这些光生物反应器具有创新的增强诱导过程，包括在收获前或收获后操纵营养和光照。新型的环境友好的提取和纯化程序将开发基于膜技术的使用。该产品将作为天然添加剂应用于一系列食品、饮料和保健品中.将评估由此产生的示范规模进程在墨西哥和联合王国的经济、社会和环境效益，并将为长期的影响和发展奠定坚实的基础。

PhycoPigment is a collaboration of academics and industry in UK and Mexico that aims to develop novelproduction technologies for a range of high value protein based water soluble pigments from microalgae fromlaboratory up to demonstration. This will involve the investigating microalgal production methods in a range ofphotobioreactors with innovative enhanced induction processes including manipulation nutrient and light, pre-or post-harvest. Novel environmentally friendly extraction and purification procedures will be developed basedon the use of membrane technology. The products will be as a natural additives in a range of foods, beveragesand nutraceutical products. The resultant demonstration scale process will be evaluated for its economic, socialand environmental benefits as applied in Mexico and the UK and will be a firm foundation for impact anddevelopment in the longer term.