Project: Cost efficient algal cultivation systems – A source of emission control and industrial development

The unique properties of microalgae are recognised worldwide as a multidimensional biomass for industrialisation. Innovative university research focuses on the composition of microalgae cultivation systems to remove nutrients from wastewater, utilising the resulting algal biomass for the generation of energy efficient biogas. However, from innovation to commercialisation, the industrialisation process requires cost efficiency in the adoption of a new production technology. The production of clean water and biogas by using nutrients as inputs through a novel biotechnological process not only promises a reduction of private industrial costs but also environmental and social net benefits. The implementation of microalgae cultivation systems will have large positive impacts on the improvement of aquatic ecosystems allowing a market solution to optimal emission control on both diffuse and point pollutant sources. Allocating abatement measures by an economic incentive and simultaneously allowing industrial development in the Baltic Sea region could significantly reduce the cost of emission control and eutrophication while increasing the supply of renewable energy. This proposal offers cost efficient emission control and new policy guidelines by the industrialisation of microalgae cultivation systems taking into account the spatial distribution of nutrients arising from intensive agricultural, industrial and municipal wastewaters improving water quality in aquatic ecosystems.

Acronym	MICROALGAE (Reference Number: call2012inno-74)
Duration	01/02/2014 - 31/01/2017
Project Topic	Eco-technological approaches
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Network	BONUS
Call	Bonus Call 2012: Innovation

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Tallinn University of Technology	Coordinator	Estonia
2	Technical University of Denmark	Partner	Denmark
3	SocEco Analysis & Education	Partner	Sweden