Total Recovery Oilseed Supply Chain
The objectives of the project are to develop new agro-industrial chains (oilseed) oriented to the production of seed and biomass through sustainable cultivation methods and with recovery of land with negative economic marginality, enhancement of local plant biodiversity, extraction of vegetable oils obtained from crops industrial oil crops, recovery and valorisation of the remaining lignocellulosic biomasses from the thistle and safflower harvesting process for the production of biomolecules of considerable industrial interest, recovery and valorisation of the residual protein by-products from the extraction processes of the oils for zootechnical feeding
Activity 1: Definition of work protocols and inventories; Activity 2: Development of the most suitable cultivation and innovative agronomic techniques analysis; Activity 3: Extraction, storage and transformation of biomass; Activity 4: verification of the functionality of the processes described in activity 3 and possible correction; Activity 5: Evaluation of economic sustainability by calculating the crop cost; Activity 6: Technology transfer of innovation
The project is part of the themes of the Focus Area 6A: encouraging diversification, the creation and development of small businesses as well as employment through innovation projects that, among others, address the following issues: renewable energy and valorisation of the effluents and by-products of agriculture: the bio-economy and the green chemistry The bio-economy as well as the green chemistry has as its objective the promotion of a system economy that uses renewable raw materials with low environmental impact together with synergistic use of supply chains and agricultural by-products.
Within this framework, the FORTe project intends to apply the principles and approaches of the bioeconomy to the Umbrian agricultural territory, in particular by optimizing the implementation of oil production chains for industrial use. The products of the crops will be used in a "cascading" logic, that is to say the valorisation of both raw materials and co-products. For the latter, the different methods of use will be demonstrated (eg feed production, innovative biomolecules) in order to increase the fallout and the global added value of the supply chain.
The project proposes a model of development based on innovation and integration between the agricultural supply chains (development of oil crops) and green chemistry, with a view to bioeconomy. The aim of increasing competitiveness and sustainability in the agricultural, zootechnical and forestry sectors is achieved by returning a positive economic value to the farmers who will be within the supply chain, minimizing the process waste and valuing primary products and by-products.
The innovation of the project lies in the technological transfer on a regional scale of what has already emerged from the specific projects of the Green Chemistry Cluster (in particular the BIT3G) and aims to propose an "extensible example on the regional territory" and replicable on a large scale (national in first place).
Within the scope of this project, we intend to strengthen innovation through agricultural cultivation and related transformation processes with low environmental impact from the perspective of Life Cycle Impact Assessment, to integrate and change the various agricultural and green chemistry sectors.
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