Evaluation of Algae-based by-products for commercial growth media and novel extractives

用于商业生长培养基和新型提取物的藻类副产品的评估

• 批准号: 487365-2015
• 负责人: Price, Gordon
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=586046
• 关键词: Evaluation; Algae; based; products; commercial

Global seaweed-based products have an estimated value of $5 billion annually based on the UN Food and Agriculture Organization projections. Maritime BioExtracts Inc. (MBE) is a Nova Scotia based bio-venture enterprise extracting a nutraceutical product from a kelp seaweed. The current extraction process generates solid waste by-products which pose a significant financial and disposal challenge for MBE. Currently, the high cost of waste management is limiting Maritime BioExtracts' ability to expand their operations to meet the growing demand for their nutraceutical product. The proposed Engage project aims to evaluate low cost composting technologies including, a static pile composting system and an in-vessel composting system to manage and stabilize the seaweed solid waste generated by MBE. The compost products have potential to be marketed as horticultural soil amendments or plant growth enhancers to the organic agriculture sector. This Engage project will provide MBE with a low cost alternative to manage their waste products and examine how to value add value to the waste solids through composting. It is anticipated that the result of this project will result in stablilized compost products which will be marketable to organic horticultural growers. An additional feature of this project will be to use advanced chemical scanning techniques to identify the unique chemical components of the seaweed-based compost for future research into other bio-active products. An outcome of the six month project will be to enable MBE to expand the current production capacity of their nutraceutical product, which will support greater local employment, reduce the costs of managing their solid wastes, and set up the potential for a new value added compost product for sale to the horticultural sector. The benefits to Canada exists in supporting entrepreneurial the bio-venture sector which is a new and expanding area of the economy.

根据联合国粮食及农业组织的数据，全球海藻产品每年的价值估计为 50 亿美元。 农业组织的预测。 Maritime BioExtracts Inc. (MBE) 是一家位于新斯科舍省的生物企业 从海带中提取营养保健品的企业。当前提取过程生成 固体废物副产品给 MBE 带来了重大的财务和处置挑战。目前，高 废物管理成本限制了 Maritime BioExtracts 扩大业务以满足 对其营养保健品的需求不断增长。拟议的 Engage 项目旨在评估低成本 堆肥技术包括静态堆肥系统和容器内堆肥系统 管理和稳定 MBE 产生的海藻固体废物。堆肥产品有潜力 作为园艺土壤改良剂或植物生长促进剂向有机农业部门销售。这 Engage 项目将为 MBE 提供一种低成本替代方案来管理其废物并检查如何 通过堆肥使废物固体增值。预计该项目的成果将 产生稳定的堆肥产品，可供有机园艺种植者销售。额外的 该项目的特点是使用先进的化学扫描技术来识别独特的化学物质 海藻堆肥的成分，用于未来研究其他生物活性产品。结果是 这个为期六个月的项目将使 MBE 能够扩大其营养保健品的当前生产能力 产品，这将支持更多的当地就业，降低管理固体废物的成本，并设定 提高向园艺部门销售新的增值堆肥产品的潜力。带来的好处 加拿大致力于支持生物创业领域，这是一个新的、不断扩大的领域 经济。