BetaBeet: distributed processing and citric acid production from locally farmed Sugar Beet

BetaBeet：利用当地种植的甜菜进行分布式加工和柠檬酸生产

• 批准号: 80235
• 金额: $ 7.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF YORK
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=80235
• 关键词: BetaBeet; distributed; processing; citric; acid

The Betabeet project aims to develop new distributed sugar beet processing technology with lower costs, lower carbon emissions and a better environmental footprint. It will achieve this through cold-pressing of sugar beet using technology developed for root vegetable processing, such as for potatoes, together with fermentation of the pulp for manufacture of the widely used preservative and cleaning product, citric acid. By-products from the process will be used for other uses, such as animal feed. We will take particular care to reduce the impact of soil erosion during sugar beet cultivation. The development of a beet processing industry in the North of England will deliver good jobs in areas hard hit by COVID. The project will help businesses in the UK recover from the COVID 19 pandemic through development of local sources of both citric acid and sugar for the North of England's food, drink and personal care manufacturers. Importantly, the project will build the technology and supply principles for the manufacture of a range of bulk and high value bio-based chemicals needed of address supply challenges emerging from both political and environmental changes. The principal of more distributed processing offers greater flexibility in the UK to add value to UK farming without the need for expensive centralised investment and high transport costs. Betabeet will also contribute to the UK's net zero and other environmental commitments: cold pressing reduces the carbon emissions for sugar beet processing by around two thirds. The scale of operations will reduce the transport costs and emissions significantly. Cultivation of sugar beet will offer a new break crop for farmers in the North of England, reducing agricultural inputs, improving soil quality and enhancing biodiversity.

Betabeet项目旨在开发新的分布式甜菜加工技术，其成本较低，碳排放较低和更好的环境足迹。它将通过使用用于根蔬菜加工的技术（例如土豆）以及发酵果肉来制造广泛使用的防腐剂和清洁产品柠檬酸的发酵来实现这一目标。该过程的副产品将用于其他用途，例如动物饲料。我们将特别注意减少甜菜种植过程中土壤侵蚀的影响。英格兰北部的甜菜加工业的发展将在遭受库维德（Covid）猛烈打击的地区提供良好的工作。该项目将通过开发英格兰北部食品，饮料和个人护理制造商的柠檬酸和糖的当地来源，帮助英国的企业从Covid 19大流行中恢复。重要的是，该项目将建立技术和供应原则，以制造一系列批量和高价值的基于生物的化学物质，以解决政治和环境变化所带来的供应挑战。更多分布式加工的本金在英国提供了更大的灵活性，以增加英国农业的价值，而无需昂贵的集中投资和高运输成本。 Betabeet还将有助于英国的净净和其他环境承诺：冷压将甜菜加工的碳排放量减少了三分之二左右。操作规模将大大降低运输成本和排放。甜菜的种植将为英格兰北部的农民提供新的破裂农作物，减少农业投入，改善土壤质量并增强生物多样性。