SBIR Phase I: Microbial Fermentation Bioprocess to Produce and Extract Platform Chemicals from the Dairy Industry Acid Whey Waste Stream.

SBIR 第一阶段：微生物发酵生物过程，从乳制品工业酸性乳清废物流中生产和提取平台化学品。

• 批准号: 1820211
• 负责人: Juan Guzman
• 金额: $ 22.49万
• 依托单位: Capro-X
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-15 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1820211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Microbial; Fermentation; Bioprocess

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is the commercialization of a fermentation bioprocess that can bring significant benefits for the dairy industry - called the WheyAway system. By initially addressing the problem of handling acid whey, a waste stream generated by all Greek yogurt and cottage cheese producers - the WheyAway can convert the cost of waste handling into a revenue by producing valuable bio-oil platform chemicals. The WheyAway can economically convert the acid whey waste stream to bio-oil on-site, allowing our customers to effectively install biorefineries at each of their plants. In comparison to anaerobic digestion, the WheyAway system can provide several multiples greater economic value. These bio-oils can be used as biofuel feedstocks, animal feed additives, and specialty chemicals. Converting acid whey yields a significant market opportunity with projected impact that could simultaneously offset ~435,000 gallons of diesel used to truck this waste off-site and eliminate ~18,000 tons of greenhouse gases from being emitted to the atmosphere. In the future, this bioprocess can be tuned to address other dairy processing streams, allowing the WheyAway to provide value to stakeholders across the entire dairy production value chain.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to scale-up and optimize a novel fermentation bioprocess called the WheyAway system, and can economically convert acid whey waste into valuable platform chemicals, to provide value to Greek yogurt and cottage cheese producers. Plan is to scale to maximize bio-oil production and conversion efficiency through system optimization. A key focus will be to lower the capital cost for the extraction process. Through the tasks proposed for this SBIR, objectives to scale to a 5x larger reactor, lower operating expense by 20%, and lower the capital cost of the currently expensive bio-oil extraction process by 10x. Additionally, potential to convert other dairy process streams, such as sweet whey, will be evaluated, which could unlock larger opportunities in the dairy production value chain.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是发酵生物制作的商业化，可以为乳制品行业带来巨大好处 - 称为惠海系统。通过最初解决处理酸乳清的问题，这是所有希腊酸奶和奶酪生产商产生的废物流 - 惠海可以通过生产有价值的生物油平台化学品来将废物处理成本转化为收入。惠海可以经济地将酸乳清废物流转换为现场生物油，从而使我们的客户可以在其每种植物中有效地安装生物精炼厂。与厌氧消化相比，惠海系统可以提供几种更大的经济价值。这些生物油可以用作生物燃料原料，动物饲料添加剂和特种化学品。转化酸乳清会产生巨大的市场机会，预计影响可能会同时抵消〜435,000加仑的柴油，用于将这种废物卡车卡车，并消除了约18,000吨温室气体，从发射到大气中。 In the future, this bioprocess can be tuned to address other dairy processing streams, allowing the WheyAway to provide value to stakeholders across the entire dairy production value chain.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to scale-up and optimize a novel fermentation bioprocess called the WheyAway system, and can economically convert acid whey waste into valuable platform chemicals, to provide value to Greek yogurt and cottage cheese producers.计划是通过系统优化来扩展生物油的产生和转化效率。重点是降低提取过程的资本成本。通过该SBIR提出的任务，将扩展到5倍的反应堆，较低的运营费用降低20％，并将当前昂贵的生物油提取过程的资本成本降低10倍。此外，将评估转换其他乳制品流程流的潜力，例如甜乳中，这可能会在乳制品生产价值链中释放更大的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点评估来获得支持的，并具有广泛的影响标准。