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AlgoWert - Development of a prototype for converting agricultural residues into animal feed using heterotrophic microalgae

Authority

Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Lower Saxony and Bremen

Contact

Calenberger Straße 2
30169 Hannover

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

AlgoWert - Development of a prototype for converting agricultural residues into animal feed using heterotrophic microalgae

Project description

The "AlgoWert" project aims to pilot a sustainable, resource-saving technology that converts plant by-products into usable components (in particular protein-rich algae biomass) in the immediate area of agricultural operations and to integrate it into daily routine. In the project, side streams from vegetable production are processed via hydrolysis and use of the hydrolysate as a nutrient source for heterogeneous microalgae (tested using the alga Galdieria sulphuraria as an example). The final product is a protein-rich algae biomass, which can be used on site by the farmers involved from Lower Saxony, as feed for pig fattening. In addition to piloting the process on site and integrating it into the daily routine of the farm, the focus of the project is the establishment of new value chains. The project also provides for an intensive exchange with external farmers in order to continuously improve the process during the project period, to achieve complete integration and to achieve marketability.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Key words

  • Animal husbandry
  • Circular economy, incl. waste, by-products and residues
  • Farm diversification

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

OG contact information

DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e.V. Quakenbrück
Prof.-von-Kitzing-Str. 7
49610 Quakenbrück

Phone: 05431183155

Email: s.smetana@dil-ev.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Researcher

Begin of project

2022

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

437,847

Link 1

project website of EIP Lower Saxony

NUTS3 CODE

DE94E

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