Development of an integrated biorefinery for processing chitin rich biowaste to specialty and fine chemicals

ChiBio is a large integrated R&D project funded through the FP7 KBBE Programme of the European Union

www.chibiofp7.eu

Grant agreement no: 289284

Agenda

• • • • • Project Motive What is in crustacean waste?

What is Chitin? And what are its applications?

ChiBio Refinery and project PERT Chart Who is involved in this project?

• Work Package 2 (WP2)-Fishery Waste Pretreatment • WP2 Objectives • WP2 Achievements • Questions

Fishery Waste to High Value Products

The European fishery industry is a major source of industrial biowaste in Europe. The processing of crustaceans (e.g. shrimps and crabs) in the EU alone results in more than ~750.000 t/a of shell waste 1 and globally it is estimated at 1.44 million metric tons

Crustacean Waste

• • • • Protein Calcium Carbonate Carotenoids Polysaccharides- Chitin > Chitosan

Chitin

• Naturally occurring polysaccharide, second most abundant in nature next to cellulose • Chitin and its deacetylated derivative chitosan are exceptionally useful polymers • They are biodegradable, non-toxic and biocompatible making them useful in a range of applications

Chitin Uses

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Agriculture-

fertilizer to improve crops

Medicine-

Wound and burn treatment increases healing time

Food-

additive to stabilise foods

Water treatment, the paper and textile industries and tissue engineering

ChiBio Refinery

ChiBio-Partners

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Participant no.

Short name

1 (Coordinator)

FhG

TUM LIT UMB INS APR ERF EVO SCAG EIL PTS

Participant organisation name

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

Technische Universität München Letterkenny Institute of Technology The Norwegian University of Life Sciences Institute National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer Apronex s.r.o.

EARAGAIL EISC TEORANTA (Errigal Fish Company LTD) Evonik Industries AG Südchemie AG Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz GmbH PT Biotech Surindo

Country

DE DE IE NO TN CZ IE DE DE AT ID

PERT-Chart

WP2 Fishery Waste Pretreatment

Carla Harkin Dr. Denis McCrudden Dr. Wolfram Bruck Dr. Catherine Lynch

WP2 Objectives

• Acquire crustacean shell wastes (Europe/Asia/Africa) • Pretreatment of crustacean shell wastes to chitin and chitinous material (Raw/Cooked/Chemical/Microbial/Size) • Stabilization for transportation (moist/dry/purity) • Setting up analytical methods for constant quality control for chitin/chitinous material (Determination of optimum assays for QC)

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WP2

QC methods established: solubility of product, water and fat solubility, degree of deacetylation, ash, FTIR, moisture, microbial load, nitrogen content (Kjeldahl), and composition of raw materials (AA).

• Protocols generated for chemical and microbial isolation of chitinous materials. • Batches of chitinous material have been sent to the project partners fulfilling our work targets

QUESTIONS?

References

FAOSTAT, FAO statistical databases, fisheries data. 2001. Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, ( http://www.fao.org

).

THANKS