Research Lab
Biochemical Engineering
29663
Research Highlights
Advanced Filtration TEchnologies for the Recovery and Later conversIon of relevant Fractions from wastEwater
AFTERLIFE is a European collaborative project framed on the Bio-based Industries (BBI) call. 15 partners from 7 European countries (Belgium, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Italy, Spain and Portugal) participate in this European €4M project.
The AFTERLIFE project proposes a flexible, cost- and resource-efficient process for recovering and valorizing the relevant fractions from wastewater. It will represent an advance on existing approaches to wastewater treatment, which rely on physic-chemical and biological methods.
The partners at UCIBIO are responsible for the development of a fermentative process for the production of PolyHydroxAlkanoates (PHA) from industrial wastewater.
YPACK - High performance polyhydroxyalkanoates based packaging to minimise food waste
YPACK is a European collaborative project funded under the call: sustainable and competitive agri-food industry. 21 partners from 11 European Union member countries or associated, participate in this European €5.9M project.
YPACK will scale up production and commercially validate two innovative food packaging solutions based on polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA). The new packaging will make use of food industry by-products (cheese whey and almond shells) assure the biodegradability and recyclability, and reduce food waste, in the frame of the EU Circular Economy strategy.
The partners at UCIBIO will be involved in the production, purification and characterization of PHA at pilot scale using agro-food by products.
