Aimplas And Biofuel Systems will manufacture plastic from cultured seaweeds with industrial CO2

The Technological Institute of the plastic (Aimplas) coordinates an ambitious project of investigation that will allow him obtain different substances for the manufacture of adhesive, paintings and dyes from a renewable source as they are the microalgas. The utilisation of these plants contributes a value added extra to the project, since they are cultivated with the broadcasts of CO₂ pertinent of industries like the cementeras or the plants of electrical production, so that it contributes to reduce the impact of these gases in the environingingment.

Together with 13 partners more, Aimplas leads the European project Bisigodos, that initiated on 1 November 2013 and will prolong during 42 months. In the project, funded inside the Seventh Program Marco (FP7) of the European Commission, goes to realizar the selection and the crop of new varieties of these organisms that allow to optimise the extraction equipment equipment of products of high value added for the industry, from the technology developed by the Alicante company Biofuel Systems (BFS) for the obtaining of artificial oil from microalgas.

Because of his envergadura and to the ambitious aims that pursues, the project has structured the participation of the partners in distinct lines of work. In a first phase, will work in the selection and the crop of the best varieties of microalgas in fotobioreactores of laboratory that also will be optimised to obtain the greater volume of possible product. The microalgas have a very fast growth in rich environingingments in CO₂ by what in said fotobioreactores can obtain by hectare more than 150 tonnes of annual dry biomass.

One of the first advantages of this technology is the fact that these plants have to be fed with solar light and CO₂. For this, go to use the broadcasts of this pertinent gas of industries like the cementeras or the companies of generation of power, so that also it will attain reduce the environingingmental impact of these installations. On the other hand, each group of work will centre in the extraction equipment equipment of distinct pertinent compounds of the microalgas that allow to obtain new additives for the formulation of industrial products with the advantage that his origin will be 100% renewable.

In a first valorisation of the biomass of game will proceed to the extraction equipment equipment of his fraction lipídica and from her will obtain polyurethanes to be used like components for adhesive. In parallel it will tackle the extraction equipment equipment of proteins, of which will obtain so many amino acids like acid láctico for the alimentary industry. The rest of the biomass will subject to a process termoquímico for his total aprovechamiento and for the obtaining of sulfactantes and other chemicals for the manufacture of paintings and inks.

The paper of Aimplas in the project is the one to validate the utility of each one of the ingredients extracted in each stage for his incorporation to the industrial production the planned products. Beside Aimplas, participate in the project Biofuel Systems, the University of Warwik, VTT, Becker Industrial Coatings, Sun Chemical, Process Design Center B.V., Bangor University, Croda International, 3V Mabo, Phycosource, Gruene- Bioraffinerie, Caspeo and Cromogenia.