ALG-AD

The latest updates of the ALG-AD project in the newsletter could be downloaded from this link: http://bit.ly/3O6BxH1

Today, Dr Alla Silkina and Dr Philippe Soudant are presenting the results of the at the Conference of Fish 🐟 farming sector research days, Journées de la recherche filière Piscicole in Paris.

Tilapia feed trial, Sea bass feed trials as part of Capitalisation WP were discussed and disseminated.

The ALG-AD project will presented today by Alla Silkina on the second day of at Universiteit Gent, Belgium, organised by Cluster Europe

Today, the first introductory meeting of the Nutrient Recycling Community, Working Group on Technologies for nutrient recycling is organised today.

the ALG-AD project will be a part of this community among 9th European projects involved in waste management and remediation.

The ALG-AD Interreg Europe project partners meeting is now hosted in Nantes, France. We have a busy program, organised by colleagues from Agriculture de Loire Atlantique.

The fist day we have demonstrated the final project results of the -AD project, discussed the outputs and future collaborative opportunities.

The second day we are visiting the farm of Derval, where the -AD project exhibition is placed. This morning we have a conference with the presentations from the local authorities and companies related to waste remediation by algae and other associated projects.

A new article about the ALG-AD project was published today:
https://theconversation.com/microalgae-is-natures-green-gold-our-pioneering-project-to-feed-the-world-more-sustainably-170158

the author Carole Llewellyn shared with us, her story of the project development and achievements

Happy reading!

Microalgae is nature's 'green gold': our pioneering project to feed the world more sustainably The inside of story of a pioneering programme to convert nitrogen into microalgae that can generate sustainable animal feed.

LCA of the ALG-AD project is now published by KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Elshamy Mohamed and Christine Rosh

the link to the paper https://bit.ly/3vCzvHy

A new technical report is available at the ALG-AD website, explaining SAFETY ANALYSIS: DIGESTATE AND ALGAL BIOMASS PRODUCED BY THE THREE ALG-AD PILOTS, written by ANSES project partner, Keita, A, Le Marechal, C, Poisson, V, Blanchard, Y.

The access to the report:

https://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/alg-ad-creating-value-from-waste-nutrients-by-integrating-algal-and-anaerobic-digestion-technology/publications/the-alg-ad-project-reports-and-deliverables/

A new event organised by ALG-AD project partners on the 29th of March 2022 and the latest results will be presented there by Fleuriane Fernandes.

Registration is available by following the link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/european-sustainable-nutrient-initiative-esni-2022-tickets-228450249847

European Sustainable Nutrient Initiative - ESNI 2022 ESNI offers an overview on the policy measures, innovative solutions and technological developments on nutrient recycling.

During the UK-India workshop, the practical session from Swansea University was organised by Alla Silkina. The short video shows the algal cultivation facilities were demonstrated with help of Fleuriane Fernandes. The video is available now:

https://youtu.be/KkJsDlTZdTM

Algal cultivation 2022_by Dr Alla Silkina Educational information about the laboratory and pilot scale cultivation of algae in the Swansea University facilities

On the 19-20 of January 2022, the international India-UK workshop was organised by the algal research team of Swansea University, UK and Laboratory of Ecology and Ecotechnology, School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

Two days of productive work, excellent talks of the Indian and UK researchers in the algal biotechnology field were presented, in order to share, exchange and create new ideas for future collaboration and new academic and applied research projects.

The workshop was well attended by UK, Indian, students, researchers, academics, and industrial collaborators.

The ALG-AD project was presented by Prof Carole Llewellyn, Dr Alla Silkina, Dr Rahul Kapoore and Fleuriane Fernandes

A new technical report as one of the ALG-AD project deliverables is now available, written by Mariana Ventura, Philippe Soudant and Guérard

If you interested in the OPTIMISATION OF ENZYMATIC
HYDROLYSIS, please check the section of our project deliverables on our website, follow the link below:

https://bit.ly/3tWIFO4

A new scientific article was published by the ALG-AD project partners from

Jai Sankar, Marcella Souza and other

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133180.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653521036523
Abstract: The integration of phototrophic microalgal production and anaerobic digestion can recycle excess nutrients across European surplus hotspots to produce protein-rich biomass for nutritional applications. However, the challenging physico-chemical properties of raw digestate constrain microalgal growth and limit digestate valorization potential. This study focused on the pre-treatment of food waste-based digestate using paper-filtration to improve its properties for cultivating Desmodesmus sp. and Chlorella vulgaris. The microalgal growth performance in paper-filtered digestate (PFD, 10 μm-pore size) was then compared to growth in membrane-filtered digestate (MFD, 0.2 μm-pore size). A microplate-based screening coupled with Cytation device assessment of PFD and MFD samples after dilution and with/without phosphorus supplementation showed that PFD was the best substrate. Moreover, phosphorus supplementation resulted in improved growth at higher digestate concentrations (5–10% v/v PFD), indicating the importance of using a balanced growth medium to increase the volumetric usage of digestate. Results were validated in a 3-L bioreactor at 10% PFD with phosphorus supplementation, reaching a biomass concentration of 2.4 g L−1 with a protein and carbohydrate content of 67% and 13% w/w respectively. This trial indicates that paper-filtration is a promising pre-treatment technique to maximize digestate recycling and deliver a sustainable animal feed-grade protein alternative.

Keywords: Animal feed; Digestate; Microalgae; Microplate experiments; Paper-filtration; Photobioreactor

Full article could be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653521036523

Maximizing nutrient recycling from digestate for production of protein-rich microalgae for animal feed application The integration of phototrophic microalgal production and anaerobic digestion can recycle excess nutrients across European surplus hotspots to produce…

Face to face ALG-AD event we are organizing at Innolab, Belgium on 3rd February 2022. The registration and tickets are here :
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-agri-food-liquid-streams-for-algal-cultivation-tickets-220033144057.

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Using agri-food liquid streams for algal cultivation Using agri-food liquid streams for algal cultivation

🎥🎥 THE OF THE WEBINAR IS NOW ! 🎥🎥

Watch or rewatch the very last of the ALG-ADproject from 16th November by clicking on the link below.
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[WEBINAR | EN] Fish feed trials Webinar | Fish feed trials This event took place the 16 November of 2021, with Philippe Soudant from CNRS-LEMAR and Fleuriane Fernandes from Swansea Universi...

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As announced earlier this week, the ALG AD project was invited to the Blue Cluster Forum ! 🌱 🌱 🌱

🗣Today, Philippe Soudant from CNRS-LEMAR is presenting to a panel discussin on land-sea applications and focuses on different topics:

✊ The fight against of with planktonid
📈 New outlets for digestate, waste heat and CO2 from methanization with the ALG-AD and Aquagrinergie projects,
🏡 , draining pavers and with Alegina,
🌿 Effluent treatment or from cement plants with at GEPEA

➡️More informations about the Blue Cluster Forum here : https://bit.ly/3r9R0N6

Farming today talks about growing algae on wastewater for animal feed and other uses.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0011rvl

In this broadcast, the BEIS funded project is demonstrating the wastewater microalgal growth, similar to the ALG-AD project, the research part of the company is based in Gloucestershire.

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Farming Today - 23/11/21 - Lobster deaths, tackling flea beetle, the Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture and algae for animal feed - BBC Sounds The Environment Agency investigates as thousands of lobsters and crabs are washed up dead.

🗓 Meet the ALG-AD project at the Blue Cluster Forum and business meeting in Saint Nazaire on November 25-26, 2021!

Along with Philippe Soudant from CNRS-LEMAR, we are participating in a panel discussion from 2pm on "Circular Economy in industrial land-sea applications of biomass".

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The fish feed trials webinar is live now! 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
Soudant, Fleuriane Fernandes and Alla Silkina are dealing with the Q&A.

🎥🎥 Stay tuned to view or rewatch the webinar, the link to the replay will soon be available online.