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自然界中人类活动的影响。通过开发新的基于生物的生产平台来更有效地利用废气，可以在工业循环方面向前迈进一步。Cheers是一个新的生物精炼概念，灵感来自于自然生物多样性(昆虫和微生物平台)，以可持续和有效的方式将生物工业中未充分利用或废弃的副流，如甘蔗渣、废水、二氧化碳和甲烷升级为创新的生物产品。Cheers将通过升级循环和级联使用其副流生产的生物质来帮助生物产业提高其原料使用效率以及整体可持续性和竞争力。CHEERS是作为一种模块化解决方案开发的，生物工业可以通过从5条新的生物技术路线中进行选择来配置最佳组合，这些路线可产生5种具有诱人市场机会的工业应用生物产品：昆虫蛋白、消毒剂、微生物蛋白、生态妥因和己酸。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，这将在工业啤酒厂进行示范规模的验证。一分钟。每条价值链将实现45%的碳足迹减少。对欢呼影响的评估将超越经典的生命周期评价，并将涵盖更广泛的影响，如生物多样性和土地利用。啤酒公司Mahou是项目协调员，与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。欢呼将有助于“零浪费”的生物精炼方法，与欧盟绿色交易、循环经济行动计划和生物经济战略完全一致，并通过相关参与者的参与，从小型生物产业到消费者，促进对基于生物技术的价值链的理解。

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.