The last call for projects funded by the public-private partnership Bio Based Industries Joint Undertake (BBI JU), an association between the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), has counted for another year with the participation of the Institute of Sustainable Processes in different proposals. The ISP acts as a partner in different consortiums that bring together both large and small companies and research groups, contributing its experience in green technologies, optimization of industrial processes and waste recovery. These calls are especially interesting because they are highly competitive calls, funded with public and private money, and which are aimed at solving specific problems related to raw materials, biorefineries and markets, products and policies, so sufficiently mature technologies are required to be able to be applied in an industrial setting.
The ISP actively participates in European calls with industrial partners, with a remarkable activity in the BBI JU calls, in which the institute currently has two active projects: Deep Purple and Urbiofin.
The Deep Purple project (Conversion of diluted mixed urban bio-wastes into sustainable materials and products in flexible purple photobiorefineries) aims to recover valuable resources from mixed streams of urban waste, such as sewage, sewage sludge and the organic fraction of waste urban solids. The Deep Purple concept is based on a versatile, integrated and flexible multiplatform biorefinery, based on the metabolism of purple phototrophic bacteria to extract and recover high added value compounds for the bio-based industry such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), ectoin and cellulose .
The Urbiofin project (Demonstration of an integrated innovative biorefinery for the transformation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into new BioBased products) aims to demonstrate the techno-economic and environmental viability of an integrated and innovative biorefinery for the transformation of the organic fraction of urban solid waste into new marketable bioproducts, chemical components, biopolymers and additives.
