GENetic diversity exploitation for Innovative macro-ALGal biorefinery. The GENIALG project aims to boost the Blue Biotechnology Economy (BBE) by increasing the production and sustainable exploitation of two high-yielding species of the EU seaweed biomass: the brown alga Saccharina latissima and the green algae Ulva spp. This project is the first industry-driven project bringing together pioneering companies in large-scale integrated European biorefineries and experts in seaweed cultivation that are already positioned in seaweed sector individually for different applications, genetics and metabolomics to boost the seaweed (macro-algae) industry. Problems that will be handled are high-costs, low scale, low quality and incomplete refinement (byproducts still need to be valorized).

Poroject Lead: Centra National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Region: Europe

Country: France

Timeline Start - End: 2017-01-01 - 2020-12-31

Project Status: Completed

Project Budget: 12224237.5 €

Funding source: 89% H2020

Website: https://genialgproject.eu/

Activities:

- Techno-economic analysis

- Social acceptance

- CCU

CO2 Source: N.A.

CCU Tecnology Category: Utilization

Info On Utilization:

- Biological conversion

CO2 capture/Utilization:

Production Volume:

Product Categories:

- Polymers

- Food/Feed

- Chemicals

- Biomass

Specific Product(s): Saccharina latissima (also known as sugar kelp) and the green alga Ulva spp. (often called sea lettuce) produiced products