About the project
The LIFE CONQUER project aims at sustainably exploiting the side stream of the salmon processing industry for producing salmon peptides and oil, to be used as ingredients for human nutrition at large scale. A sustainable first of-its-kind biorefinery will be developed in Hirtshals (Denmark) based on know-how developed by biomega® Denmark, the Coordinator, in its DEMO plant, bringing the process from TRL 6 to TRL 8. The building of such a big system is huge in term of effort and investments. The beneficiary coordinator already started the work in autumn 2021, by using their own resources, to set-up all the external infrastructure and some of the equipment needed for producing salmon peptides and oil as ingredients for human nutrition. At the beginning of the LIFE project, the biorefinery will be ready to host and to demonstrate the innovative i) solutions for extracting proteins from bones ii) the in-situ spray drying iii) an innovative inbound logistics for raw material, the three main objectives of LIFE CONQUER project
Objectives
Once the three systems will be set-up, tested and optimised the whole biorefinery will be ready to demonstrate at industrial scale the following environmental goals in line with the priority of LIFE programme:
- Bio-waste reduction: about 21.000 tonnes/ year of salmon offcuts (18.300 during project period)
- GHG reduction: about 1.600 tonnes of CO2 equivalents/year
- Water efficiency: about 30.000 tonnes/ year
- Thermal energy saving: about 23.7 Gwh/ year
The project will have benefits of the creation of new jobs, as 17 FTE will be employed in the biorefinery starting from 2023
Read more about the project https://www.lifeconquer.eu/
*This project has received funding from the European Union’s LIFE Programme for Environment and Resource Efficiency under grant agreement No. 101074400 LIFE21-ENV-DK-LIFE CONQUER