E2B2-PHACAR: Extractive Extrusion-based biorefinery (E2B2) of biomasses into a cascade of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), natural products and gelling hybrid carrageenans (CAR).

Project’s name:
E2B2-PHACAR: Extractive Extrusion-based biorefinery (E2B2) of biomasses into a cascade of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), natural products and gelling hybrid carrageenans (CAR).
Intervention region:
Norte, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa
Reference:
PTDC/BII-BIO/5626/2020
Coordinator entity:
Universidade do Minho
Approval date:
17/12/2020
Start date:
01/02/2021
End date:
31/01/2025
Total project investment (eligible):
€249,921.62
Total UMinho investment (eligible):
€179,891.30
Funding entity:
FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology
Funding amount:
€249,921.62
Funding amount (UMinho):
€179,891.30
Programa quadro:
Orçamento de Estado
Programa operacional:
Projetos de IC&DT em todos os Domínios Científicos
Responsible Researcher:
Loic Hilliou
Research Unit:
Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos
Goals, activities and expected/achieved results:
E2B2-PHACAR aims to explore a new biorefinery concept, the Extractive Extrusion-Based Biorefinery (E2B2), where a biomass is fed to an extruder for the continuous and sequential extraction of a cascade of products. Fermentation broths of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from mixed microbial cultures (MMC) and seaweeds containing hybrid carrageenans (HK) will be tested for E2B2.