SEAWEED AD
Anaerobic Digestion of Seaweed for Biofuels
| Coordinatore | CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE
Organization address
address: UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Portugal [PT] |
| Totale costo | 211˙185 € |
| EC contributo | 211˙185 € |
| 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-2010-IEF |
| Funding Scheme | MC-IEF |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-09-01 - 2013-08-31 |
Partecipanti
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CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE
Organization address
address: UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE contact info |
PT (FARO) | coordinator | 211˙185.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
The overall aims of this 24 month project are to apply metagenomic methods and develop fermentation technologies to select and study an optimum microbial inoculum and define seaweed processing conditions (including detoxification) for the production of methane biofuel from the anaerobic digestion (AD) of seaweeds. In addition the fractionation and characterisation of seaweed antimicrobials and other potential biopharmaceuticals released by bacterial enzymic hydrolysis will be assessed with a consideration as to their add-on value in AD of seaweed.
Introduzione (Teaser)
There is an urgent need to find alternatives to fossil fuels, which are rapidly diminishing. One answer is to use biomass in the form of seaweed, which can be grown in nutrient poor seas and therefore do not use land needed for food production.