SEAWEED AD

Anaerobic Digestion of Seaweed for Biofuels

Coordinatore	CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE    more  Organization address address: UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE city: FARO postcode: 8005 032 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Cristina Cognome: Inácio Email: send email Telefono: +351 289800950 Fax: +351 289800069
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE  Organization address address: UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE city: FARO postcode: 8005 032 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Cristina Cognome: Inácio Email: send email Telefono: +351 289800950 Fax: +351 289800069	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.