DEMETER
Demonstrating more efficient enzyme production to increase biogas yields
Project details
- Type of project
- Innovation Action - Demonstration
- Project focus
- Biogas
- Feedstock origin
- Agri-food waste
- Feedstock type
- Food industry sidestreams
- Project period
- 1 August 2016 - 31 January 2020
- Status
- Completed
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 4 629 586,00
- Call identifier
- H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-02
Summary
A recently developed enzyme has the potential to increase biogas yield by 10% or more. However, the current fermentation process does not yield enough to make it cost effective for industrial deployment.
The DEMETER project wants to increase this yield by at least 20%, making it far more cost effective and more easily available for widespread use. The project will improve and scale-up fermentation to improve protein yields while retaining quality using a number of techniques.
It will improve downstream processing of the fermentation broth, reducing costs by at least 15% and demonstrate industrial and economic the feasibility of the entire project using a 15,000 litre pilot plant. It will also develop a model that can predictive how adding the enzyme will impact biogas yield.
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Project coordination
- GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL BV OEGSTGEEST, Netherlands
Consortium
- DBFZ DEUTSCHES BIOMASSEFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH LEIPZIG, Germany
- PNO INNOVATION SL Barcelona, Spain
- MIAVIT GMBH Essen, Germany
- BIO BASE EUROPE PILOT PLANT VZW DESTELDONK GENT, Belgium
- PNO INNOVATION SRL Roma, Italy
- BIOMOER ENERGIE BV MOERSTRATEN, Netherlands
- NORMEC OWS GENT, Belgium
