The main goal of of the ELLIPSE project is to valorise two different heterogeneous OW streams from the paper and the slaughterhouse industries into high-added value products, according to the waste hierarchy, specifically into PHAs suitable for personal care and agricultural applications, maximizing circularity and the efficiency in the use of resources.
ELLIPSE specific objectives:
To apply effective pre-treatments for heterogeneous paper and slaughterhouse waste
To improve the yield of VFA production in acidogenic fermentation
To obtain PHBV copolymers through efficient and sustainable processes
To obtain different PHBV grades according to the requirements of the final applications in the personal care and agricultural sectors
To obtain PHBV-based compounds and wet compounds and demonstrate their performance through the production of prototypes for personal care and agricultural applications
To validate enzymatic and chemical recycling to recover monomers that will be reincorporated into the production process
To recover nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous) to be used as bio-based fertilizers
To demonstrate environmental and socio-economic sustainability of new biobased compounds/products and guarantee the safety of the new circular bioprocesses
To apply/adapt mature/novel digital technologies
To maximize the innovation impact by contributing to the dissemination post-project
To determine public awareness and acceptance of bio-based polymers and to support acceptance of scalable bio-based solutions
