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Project

IDEA

Implementation and development of economic viable algae-based value chains

Date

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Project aim

IDEA envisions the development and enrolment of economic viable value chains based on micro-algae in NWEurope. More particularly, partners from Belgium, Germany, France, The Netherlands and Ireland are involved, which are countries exposed to a similar climate that is significantly different from the south-European climate.

 

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Context

Today, algae based value chains are not established despite free greenhouse capacities suitable for algae growth. IDEA aims to innovate and push the process development from individual solutions to a viable process chain targeting final compounds for food, feed and cosmetic applications. This will involve at longer term more than 60 SMEs in the region.

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Objectives

IDEA addresses innovations related to:

  1. algae species for NWEurope climate and cultivation efficiency for prolonged growth seasons in NWE (up to 360 days)
  2. development of an automated water recirculation, harvest unit & alternative CO2 resources
  3. storage concept, logistics and preservation of algae biomass
  4. regional activities for algae processing, potentially comparable to the milk industry
  5. >15 novel products formulations to targeting value generation. IDEA starts where earlier projects ended.

Results

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Real-Time Monitoring of Microalgal Biomass in Pilot-Scale Photobioreactors Using Nephelometry
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Pilot-Scale Cultivation of the Snow Alga Chloromonas typhlos in a Photobioreactor
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