EU project has been granted: SEAlgaePower – Sustainable development of microalgae-based products using waste streams from aquaculture and seafood processing industry as feedstock.
Nordicflexhouse is partner in this project.
The fast-growing aquaculture and seafood processing industry generate large amounts of nutrient-rich wastewaters, posing a high cost for discharge and environmental impact. There is a lack of technologies for valorisation of these wastewaters, while there is an increasing demand for new resources intended for carbon-neutral production of food, material and energy. The ability of microalgae to perform photosynthesis and efficiently convert dissolved nutrients into valuable biomass could contribute to solving this dual problem.
The overall objective of the SEAlgaePower project is to develop innovative technologies where microalgae can clean currently wasted nutrient-rich water from the aquaculture (like our BioPod fish container) and seafood processing industry while simultaneously producing biomass for development of novel ingredients in a sustainable way.