ALGATEC
Biotechnological recycle of olive mills washing water by microalgae
| Coordinatore | BIOAZUL
Organization address
address: CALLE SEVERO OCHOA 7 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Spain [ES] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.algatec.net |
| Totale costo | 1˙431˙871 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙070˙162 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2008-1 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-04-15 - 2011-08-14 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
BIOAZUL
Organization address
address: CALLE SEVERO OCHOA 7 contact info |
ES (CAMPANILLAS) | coordinator | 374˙989.90 |
| 2 |
Valor Sabio
Organization address
address: PARQUE IMPRESARIAL DE TORRES contact info |
PT (TORRES VEDRAS) | participant | 263˙910.89 |
| 3 |
ISITEC GMBH
Organization address
address: BUSSESTRASSE 27 contact info |
DE (BREMERHAVEN) | participant | 223˙806.34 |
| 4 |
Biotmicrogen S.L.
Organization address
city: Armilla (Granada) contact info |
ES (Armilla (Granada)) | participant | 189˙912.88 |
| 5 |
ENOSY AGROTIKON SYN SMON PEZON - (UNION OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES OF PEZA PEZA UNION)
Organization address
address: Kalloni Pediados contact info |
EL ("IRAKLEIO, CRETE") | participant | 9˙064.03 |
| 6 |
Nome Ente NON disponibile
Organization address
address: Antigua carretera La Rambla S/N Apdo. correos 172 contact info |
ES ("Puente Genil, Cordoba") | participant | 8˙477.96 |
| 7 |
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Organization address
address: "Egialias And Chalepa Street, Maroussi 19" contact info |
EL (ATHENS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Organization address
address: CUESTA DEL HOSPICIO SN contact info |
ES (GRANADA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA
Organization address
address: VIA S MARIA IN GRADI 4 contact info |
IT (VITERBO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN E.V.
Organization address
address: An der Karlstadt 10 contact info |
DE (BREMERHAVEN) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The EU is the most important producer of olives in the world, from 2001-2007, 2,2 million tonnes of olive oil were produced in about 12.000 olive mills, which accounts for the 80% of the world production. These producers are mainly SMEs placed in the basin of the Mediterranean Sea, being Spain, Italy and Greece the biggest producers. Olive oil consumption is growing worldwide thanks to the acknowledgement of its benefits on health. Although the EU is the main olive oil consumer, the demand in countries like USA and Syria has increased significantly in recent years. On the other hand, non-European countries like Turkey, Syria and Tunisia enter the market and harden competition, threatening EU producers’ dominant position. Besides the market expansion, the olive oil sector in the EU will have to solve some long-standing environmental problems to keep its predominant situation. During the olive processing, large amounts of highly pollutant liquid wastes are generated. This poses serious problems to olive oil mills since waste management involves additional costs and logistical problems, especially for the SMEs. About 50 litres of drinkable water are required to was 100 k of olives. Hence, an enormous amount of drinkable water in Mediterranean countries is consumed by this process (about 5 billions of litres a year). Such huge amount of water is mostly required in rural areas which, in contrast, very often exhibit serious shortage of water. The main objective of ALGATEC project is the treatment and reuse of WW generated in small olive oil mills, with high pollutant content, by means of an affordable and compact photobioreactor using microalgae, capable to recover and recycle the majority of the drinkable water used in the process of olives washing. Furthermore, their problem of the disposal of wastewater will be reduced because the reutilisation of the WW will diminish the overall volume of wastewater, with both economical and environmental benefits.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Processing and washing olives requires huge amounts of water. New technology promises eventually to save up to 90% of the precious liquid in traditionally water-hungry areas.