REALM – Reusing Effluents from Agriculture to unLock the potential of Microalgae
Microalgae production will be automated with the help of newly developed sensors and artificial intelligence to lower production costs and increase productivity. Additionally, a novel biorefinery process will be developed to produce biostimulants, biopesticides and feed for aquaculture from the produced microalgae, thus valorising waste: the drainwater. Newly developed sensors will monitor the composition of the growth medium, the quality of the culture and other biological, physical and chemical variables of microalgae production. This will greatly improve process control and consequently productivity. By coupling the collected data with artificial intelligence, REALM will develop predictive models and digital twins to determine the most productive cultivation setup and conditions for each microalgae strain and environment; for instance, the optimal cellular concentration of microalgae in the growth medium, important for optimal exposure of microalgae to light.
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Project Coordinator
- Necton, Portugal
Project partners
- Biorizon Biotech, Spain
- Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- University of Turku, Finland
- GreenCoLab, Portugal
- University of Twente, The Netherlands
- ESCI, Germany
- University of Cadiz, Spain
- S2AquaCoLab, Portugal
- University of Almeria, Spain
- Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum, Belgium
- Hubel Verde, Portugal
- OnePlanet Research Center, The Netherlands
- Grupo Empresarial La Caña, Spain
- Phycoworks, United Kingdom
- Decerna, United Kingdom