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Project
Acronym: ANIMPOL  
Name: Biotechnological conversion of carbon containing wastes for eco-efficient production of high added value products  
Project status: From: 2010-01-01 To: 2012-12-31 (Completed)
Contract number: 245084  
Action line: FP7-KBBE  
Type (Programme): FP7 
Funding scheme: STREP 
Project cost: 3.754.375,00 EUR
Project funding: 2.895.660,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ  
Organisation adress: Rechbauerstrasse, Graz 
Organisation country: Austrija 
Contact person name: Martin KOLLER (Dr) 
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Croatian partner
Organisation name: Prehrambeno-biotehnološki fakultet 
Organisation address: Pierottijeva 6, Zagreb 
Contact person name: Predrag Horvat
Contact person tel:
+385-14605166   Contact person fax: +385-14636424  
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
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Short description of project
The applicants propose the development of a sound industrial process that unites the urgently needed solution of industrial waste problems with the creation of essential alternative strategies for polymer industry. This will be done by the biotechnological conversion of waste streams from slaughterhouses, rendering and biodiesel industry towards biodegradable polymeric materials. Slaughterhouse waste is converted towards fatty acid esters (FAMEs, biodiesel). Subsequently those FAME fractions that negatively influence the biodiesel properties as a fuel are biotechnologically converted towards high-value polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolymers. This brings together representatives of the envisaged lead users: waste producers from animal processing industry and bio-fuel industry with the polymer industry looking for alternatives technologies. Providing long-term strategies for long-term problems, the project will result in value creation for all players and provide innovative biotechnological approaches for absolutely needed eco-efficient alternatives to contemporary industrial polymer production. The development of this integrated process will be accomplished by beyond the state-of the-art inputs of microbiology, genetics, biotechnology, chemical engineering, polymer chemistry- and processing and life cycle analysis, combined with feasibility studies for marketing of the final products. The compiled Consortium absolutely conforms to the requirements to fulfill the envisaged project aims. Research will be done in close cooperation between academic and industrial partners. The project activities aim at solving local waste problems affecting the entire EU; the solutions will be developed on local scales, but are meant to be applied to the entire EU and will provide cost-efficient and sound alternatives for polymer industry.   
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
  


   

 


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