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

PhycoPigment是英国和墨西哥学术界和工业界的一个合作项目，旨在开发从实验室到示范的一系列高价值蛋白质水溶性微藻色素的新生产技术。这将涉及在一系列光生物反应器中研究微藻生产方法，采用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线。在膜技术的基础上，将开发新的环境友好的提取和纯化工艺。该产品将作为天然添加剂用于一系列食品、饮料和营养保健品中。由此产生的示范规模过程将对其在墨西哥和英国应用的经济、社会和环境效益进行评估，并将成为长期影响和发展的坚实基础。

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.