Name:
Mar3BIO- Biorefinery and biotechnological exploitation of marine biomasses

Developed by:
International consortium

Partner from Slovenia – National Institute of Chemistry

Country(ies) involved:
Italy, Slovenia

Funding sources:
EU

General idea:
Contribution to development of blue economy: development of efficient and sustainable biorefinery processes

Description:
Description: The marine biomasses to be used in Mar3Bio are brown algae and crustacean byproducts. These abundant but underexploited renewable biomasses have great potential for production of high value biomolecules.The current bottlenecks for a bio-refinery focusing on raw materials as brown algae and crustacean byproducts, are low yields, high energy consumption and incomplete spectrum of recovered biomolecules.
Aim: Mar3Bio will tackle this by a multidisciplinary and intersectorial R&D approach, and contribute to the development of efficient and sustainable bio-refinery processes for exploitation of the selected biomasses.
Challenges/needs addressed: need to find alternatives to an oil refinery.
Impact and usefulness: Investigation of the renewable biomasses to be used in the bio-refinery will contribute to the increasing number of bio-refineries. Finding the solutions of the obstacles faced in the usage of biomasses in the bio-refineries will promote bio-refineries, decrease the costs and energy consumption
Contribution to innovations: investigating the potential of marine biomasses to be used in the bio-refineries.
Stakeholders: bio-refineries.
More information: http://www.marinebiotech.eu/mar3bio