DEMA
Direct Ethanol from MicroAlgae
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
Organization address
address: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL PARK, PLASSEY contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Ireland [IE] |
| Totale costo | 6˙388˙935 € |
| EC contributo | 4˙948˙434 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENERGY
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Energy |
| Code Call | FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-12-01 - 2017-05-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
Organization address
address: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL PARK, PLASSEY contact info |
IE (LIMERICK) | coordinator | 1˙458˙758.00 |
| 2 |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Organization address
address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 990˙863.20 |
| 3 |
A4F ALGAFUEL SA
Organization address
address: BELAMANDIL contact info |
PT (OLHAO) | participant | 755˙100.00 |
| 4 |
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Organization address
address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 542˙176.70 |
| 5 |
Pervatech BV
Organization address
address: HELIUMSTRAAT 11 contact info |
NL (RIJSSEN) | participant | 274˙092.00 |
| 6 |
Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P.
Organization address
address: Rua da Amieira contact info |
PT (S.Mamede de infesta) | participant | 250˙166.25 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Organization address
address: SPUI 21 contact info |
NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 245˙809.75 |
| 8 |
PHOTANOL BV
Organization address
address: ROETERSSTRAAT 35 contact info |
NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 222˙929.50 |
| 9 |
ERCANE GIE
Organization address
address: ROUTE GABRIEL MACE 40 contact info |
FR (SAINTE CLOTILDE) | participant | 116˙453.60 |
| 10 |
TURUN YLIOPISTO
Organization address
address: YLIOPISTONMAKI contact info |
FI (TURUN YLIOPISTO) | participant | 92˙085.74 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The DEMA Consortium will develop, demonstrate and licence a complete economically competitive technology for the direct production of bioethanol from microalgae with low-cost scalable photobioreactors by 2016. Initial proof-of-concept results show via Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and economic balance that it is feasible to use microalgae to produce bioethanol for less than € 0.40 per litre. The catalytic conversion of solar energy, H2O and CO2 into ethanol will be carried out by a metabolically engineered strain of the cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The DEMA Project will carry out research and development on the complete biofuel-production process at two levels. In the first level, the performance of cyanobacteria will be substantially enhanced by a series of metabolic engineering strategies to directly transform CO2, H2O and sunlight into Bioethanol at a concentration level of >1-2% (v/v). In the second level the bioethanol is continuously extracted from the culture media via a membrane technology process exploiting existing EU expertise and technology. This elegant process design enables the economic and energy efficient production of Biofuel at a dramatically reduced Capital and Operational expenditure. LCA performance is excellent and the overall approach is likely to be superior to any other alternative process design either proposed in the literature or by the US biofuels firm Algenol. We will also study exploitation of the residual biomass for other energy related applications to generate an even better total LCA. The DEMA bioethanol process will be economically, socially, and environmentally positive, providing a complement and future replacement to terrestrial biomass-derived ethanol and act as an immediately actionable means of reducing the carbon footprint of EU transport needs. The DEMA consortium will achieve a Transformational Innovation in biofuel production via low risk improvement of existing technologies at proof of concept stage.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
An EU consortium is developing a highly efficient ethanol production process from microalgae.