Specific Objectives

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Aim

The overall objective of the project “BioPro: Transforming Biowaste into Single Cell Proteins in the era of Circular Bioeconomy” is:

Main objective

To provide a novel technological bioprocess platform for the transformation of source separated organic fraction of household wastes (biowastes) into high market value products, such as pigments, substrate for anaerobic digesters and mainly feed ingredients (proteins), addressing two major global challenges of the future; sustainable waste management and lack of proteins for the growing global population.

The specific objectives are:

To develop and demonstrate an integrated system, which will convert biowaste into high market value products through advanced cascade biological processes.
To optimize anaerobic digestion systems treating biowastes via adoption of status indicators that will serve as early warning control signals.
To generate microalgal biomass and/or pigments via CO₂ capture and utilization processes.
To produce second generation Single Cell Proteins (SCP) via the exploitation of source separated organic fraction of household wastes.
To decouple the production of SCP from fossil fuels (i.e. natural gas) by using biomethane, thus, reducing the overall carbon footprint of the process and maximizing sustainability.
To overcome current technical barriers associated with CO₂ capture, nutrient recycling and upcycling, and finally metabolic capacity of methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB).
To significantly deepen our knowledge into the functional organization of MOB communities by cutting-edge methodologies (genome-centric metagenomics and metatranscriptomics) and multidisciplinary research approaches (i.e. applied microbiology, bioprocess engineering, bioinformatics)
To obtain experimental proofs and validations of the concept, and thus, to be in the privileged position to deliver a technological process ready to be implemented at pilot scale applications.