MIRACLES General Presentation

Production of specialties for food, aquaculture and non-food applications via multi-product biorefinery of microalgae.

Aims of the project

Limited implementation algal biorefinery to date is mainly due to unfavourable economics. Major bottlenecks:

• high costs of algal biomass production
• absence of appropriate biorefinery technologies
• lack of concrete product applications

MIRACLES aims to address these hurdles via:

• enhancing cost-effectiveness of algae production and processing through technology development along the production chain
• development of true multiple-product biorefinery technology for specialties from algae
• development of new products for food, aquaqulture and non-food