BioPro - Low emission protein production from anaerobic digestion gases

BioPro - 通过厌氧消化气体生产低排放蛋白质

• 批准号: 10077731
• 金额: $ 27.21万
• 依托单位: NOVATICA TECHNOLOGIES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10077731
• 关键词: BioPro; Low; emission; protein; production

Up to 30% of the EU's demand for crude protein is fulfilled by imported soybean meal, which is linked to deforestation in Brazil. The UK also heavily relies on soybean, oilseed and fish meal imports, and recent political and economic turmoil has negatively impacted the animal feed supply. Insect farming and fish meal production from CO2 as emerging alternatives can not fulfil the growing demand for sustainable, ethically produced proteins in animal feed and while plant-based proteins are an option, they require significant land and water resources and are often considered more suitable for human consumption.In the current collaborative project, the team of researchers from Novatica Technologies Ltd and the University of Chester aims to develop a technology to convert **biomethane** and **biogas** from anaerobic digestion into single-cell protein SCP using methanotrophic bacteria to meet the growing need for sustainable animal protein. The use of biomethane and biogas as feedstock to produce animal feed proteins can reduce waste, create value, contribute to a circular economy, and provide a low-cost and sustainable alternative to traditional protein sources. By turning greenhouse C1 gases, produced via anaerobic digestion of various organic wastes, into high-value products we will create a novel close-loop low emission food and feed production system.The proposed value chain of biomethane/biogas-to-animal feed proteins will help to reduce waste disposal and methane emissions from landfills, positively affect the UK's network of anaerobic digestors, increase revenues from waste and greenhouse gases utilisation, reduce the reliance on energy-intensive hydrogen-based processes and high-risk imports in food and feed, and bring the UK to the forefront of innovative sustainable biotechnologies for proteins production.

进口大豆粉与巴西森林砍伐有关，欧盟对原油蛋白的需求最多可满足。英国还严重依赖大豆，油料和鱼类进口，最近的政治和经济动荡对动物饲料的供应产生了负面影响。二氧化碳作为新兴替代品的昆虫养殖和鱼餐生产无法满足对动物饲料中可持续，道德生产的蛋白质的不断增长的需求，而植物性蛋白质是一种选择，但它们需要大量的土地和水资源，并且通常被认为更适合于在当前的合作项目中，Novatica Technologies Ltd和切斯特大学的研究人员团队旨在开发一种技术，以将**生物甲烷**和**沼气**从厌氧消化转化为单细胞蛋白SCP甲烷营养细菌满足了对可持续动物蛋白的日益增长的需求。将生物甲烷和沼气用作产生动物饲料蛋白的原料可以减少浪费，创造价值，有助于循环经济，并为传统蛋白质来源提供低成本且可持续的替代品。通过将通过各种有机废物的厌氧消化产生的温室C1气体转变为高价值产品，我们将创建一个新型的近环低排放食品和饲料生产系统。拟议的生物甲烷/沼气至 - 亚含量饲料蛋白的价值链将有助于减少垃圾填埋场的废物处理和甲烷排放，从而对英国的厌氧消化园网络产生积极影响，增加废物和温室气体利用的收入，减少对基于能源密集型氢的过程的依赖，以及在食品和饲料中的高风险进口，并将英国带到蛋白质生产创新的可持续生物技术的最前沿。