SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIOMASS FROM OLEAGINOUS PROCESSING
NEWSLETTER
June 2016
PROJECT INFORMATION ERANETLAC JOINT CALL 2014 TOTAL PROJECT COSTS: 878.032,00 € TOTAL REQUESTED FUNDING: 723.032,00 € PROJECT DURATION (MONTHS): 24 KICK-OFF MEETING: 12/2015
PARTNERS: AZTI (Spain), Institut für Lebensmittelund Umweltforschung e.V. – ILU (Germany), Centro para a Valorização de Resíduos – CVR (Portugal), Centro de Estudios en Alimentos Procesados - CEAP (Chile), Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria – INIA (Uruguay), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial – INTI (Argentina).
PROJECT COORDINATOR: AZTI (Spain), Contact Person: Carlos Bald
Welcome to this first edition of SUMO Newsletter. This new bi-annual Newsletter, published in English, is the voice of SUMO: Sustainable Use of bioMass from Oleaginous processing, financed by the ERANet-Lac programme. SUMO newsletter is launched with the aim of reaching not just our project partners, but also a wider audience seeking information about our project activities. Featuring key project events, research and dissemination activities, publi-
cations, our newsletter will highlight the most important news about SUMO project during the whole duration of the project. Complementing this newsletter is our new website, http://www.sumo-project.eu, where you can find additional information on our work. We look forward to producing an attractive, informative and useful newsletter. We welcome any feedback on this issue and contributions to future newsletters.
OBJECTIVES SUMO project (Sustainable Use of bioMass from Oleaginous processing) will help develop different and complementary valorization routes for the sustainable use of olive and rapeseed processing by-products. The project will bring all applications to TRL6 - testing the prototype concept in a high-fidelity laboratory environment., and ready for further demonstration and field trials after the project. The project will assess and develop new options of valorization of oil sector lignocellulosic byproducts, characterizing and evaluating the potential uses of bio based residues
attending to the differences in the available volumes, infrastructures and potential market for the products obtained from the valorization routes. CASE STUDY: A biorefinery plant scheme for “in situ” treatment of lignocellulosic wastes by each participating region will be proposed. At least 6 different products are envisaged to be produced from the selected waste streams. The results could be extrapolated to other similar byproducts and regions.
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EXPECTED OUTCOME The project will develop solutions following the bio-refinery concept, giving priority to the more valuable options, and different products will be obtained from a same waste stream. The general expected result is the design of several alternatives of biorefinery schemes adaptable to the current biomass processing and consumption sites in the participating countries, where the oil seed processing sector is very important. The alternatives will be flexible enough to process vegetable processing byproducts and find synergies with other complementary wastes generated in the nearby area. The valorization routes to be developed comprise the use of the biomass and its components in human consumption, feed, biofuels and energy.
EXPECTED IMPACT • Reduction of the environmental impact generated by Oleaginous Processing sector. • Improvement of the competitiveness of the sector through diversification of their activities and management costs reduction. • Promotion of new economic activities through obtention of products with application in agronomic, cosmetic, food and feed sectors.
BIOREFINERY SCHEME
• Development of new ad hoc solutions based on the effective and sustainable combination of valorization technologies to be tested by the different partners.
BIOPRODUCTS • Antioxidants • Lipids • Biomass
Bioproducts from olive and rapeseed oil production
FERTILIZERS
• Fulfilment and implementation of environmental regulations in waste management and renewable energies in each participant country.
PROCESSES/ TECHNOLOGIES
ENERGY
APPLICATIONS • FOOD • COSMETICS • FEED
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CURRENT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT Kick-off meeting
Consortium Agreement
WP4: Initial Project webpage
Kick-off meeting: team members responsible for the six participating research centers (AZTI, CEAP, CVR, ILU, INIA and INTI) attended the meeting by videoconference on 16 December 2015. Consortium Agreement: signed by the six team members in charge of the project. It describes the role of all partners, including both rights and duties. Some of the aspects included in the agreement are related to: managerial structure, IPR and exploitation results, funding management or risk assessment. Project Web page: includes key information of the SUMO project. The content has been put at the disposal of the public in the following hyperlink: http://www.sumo-project.eu/en/.
WP1: Inventory and diagnostic
WP2. Development of valorization approaches
Other publications (Project Summary Brochure) are available through the webpage. Rapeseed and olive wastes generation inventory and diagnostic of the current situation in each country: analysis including the description of main production areas in each country, key stakeholders, current waste management procedures, existing facilities, private companies, regulatory issues, R&D institutions and industrial associations. Development of valorization approaches: first collection and analytical characterization of materials and preliminary valorization tests.
THE ROLE OF THE PARTNERS All partners involved in SUMO project have special interest in olive and rape seed oil, due to the relevance for the economy of the agrofood sector in their home countries. The partners have complementary knowledge on the sector and experience that cover all the proposed solutions and the applications of the resulting products: AZTI (Spain) has expertise in phytochemicals extraction, anaerobic digestion for biogas production, food applications, and energetic valorization. Institut für Lebensmittelund Umweltforschung e.V., ILU (Germany) has expertise in oilseed processing, phytochemicals and oil extraction, microalgae production & harvesting, food & cosmetic applications, feed formulation & supplementation.
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA (Uruguay) has expertise in agronomic production & processing and waste waters treatment minimizing environmental impact through composting. Centro de estudios de alimentos procesados de la región del Maule, CEAP (Chile) has expertise in agronomic production & processing, biofuel production, microalgae production & harvesting, feed formulation & supplementation, and energetic valorization. Centro para a Valorização de Resíduos, CVR (Portugal): expertise in gasification & pyrolysis, composting, and energetic valorization. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial, INTI (Argentina): expertise in waste management, energy production, gasification & pyrolysis.
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MAIN CONCLUSIONS OF WP1 (Inventory and Diagnostic of the oleaginous wastes generation in the different countries) • Rapeseed and olive crops are of great importance for the economies of the countries involved in the SUMO project. • Production is more concentrated on some specific regions, where they play a key economic, social and cultural role. • Destiny market: Olive production is for human consumption. Rapeseed is used for production of animal feed, edible vegetable oils, and biodiesel. • There are big differences in the productive infrastructure among the different countries in terms of the size of the processing plants and logistics. • Rapeseed oil production process is very similar in all countries while in the case of olive oil production there are 3 methods currently used. • Main byproducts: • Rapeseed oil production: rapeseed meal and rapeseed cakes, which are mainly used in the feeding of cattle and pigs. • Olive oil production: olive mill waste water, olive pomace and olive marc. In Spain, the olive pomace is mostly sold to specialized companies for a secondary extraction to produce “orujo oil” sold for human
consumption while the olive marc (orujillo) is dried and used in co-generation facilities for producing energy. This is not a common practice in all producing countries. • Public institutions have promoted different incentives at national and regional levels which have led to business opportunities. It is also important to highlight the existence of some strategic plans developed by the administration in cooperation with other stakeholders. • Legislation has been especially important in the development of best waste management practices, although the change in normative has also been in some cases a limiting factor, like, for instance, in the case of energy and biodiesel production in Spain and Germany, respectively. • A number of ongoing R&D initiatives, led by universities and research centres, have been identified in relation with the valorization of the olive and rapeseed processing byproducts, in search of more valuable alternatives following the biorefinery concept. • The main stakeholders (farm producers and technology providers, oil processing companies, livestock producers, animal feed producers, business associations, research institutions, government agencies and other regulators) have been identified.
UPCOMING PROJECT EVENTS Next consortium meeting will take place the 17-18 October 2016 in AZTI’s facilities.
CONSORTIUM
This Project is supported by ERANet-LAC 1st joint call. Ref. ELAC2014/BEE-0364 http://www.eranet-lac.eu/