ALGAVALOR

MicroALGAs: produção integrada e VALORização da biomassa e das suas diversas aplicações | MicroALGAs: integrated production and valuation of biomass and its various applications
Acronym: 
ALGAVALOR
Start year: 
2018
End year: 
2021
Type of project: 
National
Principal investigator: 
ALLMICROALGAE - ALLMICROALGAE NATURAL PRODUCTS, S.A.
MARE coordination: 
Maria Manuel Gil
Participating Institutions: 
CIIMAR - CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINAR DE INVESTIGAÇÃO MARINHA E AMBIENTAL; UA - UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO; UM - UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO; UCP - UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA; UP - UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO; ISA - INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA; UALG - UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE; LNEG - LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA I.P.; IPL - INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE LEIRIA; NECTON - COMPANHIA PORTUGUESA DE CULTURAS MARINHAS S.A.; VALORGADO - AGRICULTURA E PECUÁRIA, LDA; LIPOR - SERVIÇO INTERMUNICIPALIZADO DE GESTÃO DE RESÍDUOS DO GRANDE PORTO; CASTELBEL - ARTIGOS DE BELEZA, S.A.; EM - ERNESTO MORGADO, S.A.; EFP - EMPRESA FIGUEIRENSE DE PESCA LDA; INIAV - INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGAÇÃO AGRÁRIA E VETERINÁRIA, I.P.; VAISA - AGRICULTURA INTENSIVA, S.A.; NARCISO - NARCISO DIAS & FILHOS LDA; CMP - CIMENTOS MACEIRA E PATAIAS S.A.
Funding entity: 
Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização; Programa Operacional Regional de Lisboa; Programa Operacional Regional do Algarve
State: 
Ongoing
Abstract: 

The ALGAVALOR project has as its general objective the integrated production of microalgae and the valorisation of their biomass and extracts in different applications, with the development and launch of new products in the human food, animal nutrition, cosmetics and biofertiliser markets. To this end, new production processes are proposed, with increased sustainability. This general objective can be broken down into a set of specific objectives, to be achieved through different sub-projects (SP):

  • Valorization of microalgae for human food (SP 1);
  • Valorization of microalgae for animal feed (SP 2);
  • Valorization of microalgae for natural cosmetics (SP 3);
  • Development of new processes, including “new generation” open reactors and optimization of existing processes, with a view to obtaining gains in scale and efficiency (SP 4);
  • Development of agricultural biofertilizers from microalgae and use of agro industrial residues as inputs for the production of “biological microalgae” in a circular economy logic (SP 5);
  • Project management, dissemination and valorization of results (SP 6).
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