SIMPHASRLS

Exploitation of oily wastes for the simultaneous production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and rhamnolipids (RLs)

Coordinatore	FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS E TECNOLOGIADA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA    more  Organization address address: QUINTA DA TORRE city: CAPARICA postcode: 2829 516 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Luis Filipe Cognome: Gonçalves Gaspar Email: send email Telefono: 351213000000 Fax: 351213000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Portugal [PT]
Totale costo	147˙210 €
EC contributo	147˙210 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-06-01   -   2016-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS E TECNOLOGIADA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA  Organization address address: QUINTA DA TORRE city: CAPARICA postcode: 2829 516 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Luis Filipe Cognome: Gonçalves Gaspar Email: send email Telefono: 351213000000 Fax: 351213000000	PT (CAPARICA)	coordinator	147˙210.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In order to reduce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production cost we propose the simultaneous production of PHAs and other high value-added products such as rhamnolipids (RLs). The aim of the certain project is to investigate the ability of non-pathogenic bacteria to produce PHAs and RLs simultaneously. Factors that affect both biosynthetic pathways will be detected (composition and concentration of carbon source, type of nitrogen source, C/N ratio) and the cultivation strategy will be selected (reactor operation in fed-batch or continuous mode). For the simultaneous production of PHAs and RLs renewable substrates of oily nature will be used such as wastes generated from oil-processing plants and industries (waste vegetable oils such as corn oil and olive oil) in order to design a low-cost production process. PHAs and RLs yields, composition, distribution and physicochemical properties will be determined for each set of experiments in order to link bioprocess optimization with the optimization of PHAs and RLs physicochemical properties and to evaluate the effect of environmental and culture conditions on them.'