Project name: “BIOLUBRICANT – development of innovative biotechnology for oil base lubricant production”
Project period: 2011 - 2013
Institution providing financial support: Agency of Science, Innovation and Technology, Industrial biotechnology program
Total sum of the project: 448 398 Lt.
Brief introduction of the project idea: To develop plant scale technologies for bioesters production for manufacturing a high value-added products.
Partners: Vilnius University, Institute of Biotechnology, Sector of Applied Biocatalysis, Lithuania.
Project name: “Bio-SURFEST - Development of novel environmentally added-value surfactants and esters by biotechnological processes from fats and oils waste streams”
Project period: 2011 - 2013
Institution providing financial support: European Union program Framework 7
Total sum of the project: 1 242 468 €.
Brief introduction of the Project idea: To develop two biotechnological processes at semi-industrial scale in order to produce two different classes of bio-products, bio-surfactants and ester oils (non useful for biodiesel production).
Partners: "Industrias Suescun", Spain; "Green technologies", Greece; "Machinefabriek Otto Schouten", Germany; "Compuestos Y Granzas", Spain; "Phytolutions", Germany; "L'urederra", Spain; Patras universitetas, Greece; "Verein Zur Foerderung des Technologietransfers", Germany.
Project name: “UNIDIGES - development of a demonstrative pilot plant for anaerobic digestion of manure”
Project period: 2011 - 2014
Total sum of the project: 1 310 678 €.
Institution providing financial support: Life+ program
Brief introduction of the Project idea: To develop a demonstrative pilot plant for anaerobic digestion of manure from a single medium farm in order to get a good management of manure and energetic valorisation of wastes as well as to obtain a valorised fertiliser.
Partners: "L'urederra", Spain; "Istituto Tecnico Gestion", Spain; "Nuevos Servicios Energeticos", Spain.