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ABACUS

  • Project Description

    This business-oriented project aims at a new algal biorefinery, thereby bringing to the market innovative algae-based ingredients for high-end applications. These include algal terpenes for fragrances and long-chain terpenoids (carotenoids) for nutraceuticals and cosmetic actives. For this, cultivation steps, production of targetproducts and unique algae strains coming from 4 large culture collections owned by project’s partners are selected and optimised.

    Poroject Lead: Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

  • Geographical Information

    Region: Europe

    Country: France

    City/Town: Paris

  • Project Boundaries

    Timeline Start - End: 2017-01-05 - 2020-07-31

    Project Status: Completed

    Project Budget: 5135861.16 €

    Funding source: 91% H2020

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  • Technological Information

    Activities:

    - Techno-economic analysis

    - R&I

    - Life cycle assessment (LCA)

    - CCU

    - Applicability assessment

    CO2 Source: N.A.

    CCU Tecnology Category: Utilization

    Info On Utilization:

    - Photochemical conversion

    - Biological conversion

  • Technological Details

    CO2 capture/Utilization:

    Production Volume:

  • Product Information

    Product Categories:

    - Food/Feed

    - Chemicals

    - Biomass

    Specific Product(s): Algae based terpenes and long-chain terpenoids (carotenoids) for nutraceuticals and cosmetic actives.

  • Partners

    - Sensient Cosmetic Technologies

    - MICROPHYT

    - Proteus

    - Subitec 

    - Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

    - The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

    - A4F - Algae for Future

    - SAMS

    - Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)