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Grass fibres can replace plastic as a 100% biodegradable and disposable material for packaging for take-away food. This is the goal of the new innovative project SinProPack, which aims to develop a sustainable alternative to the disposable plastics currently used for packaging.
The project is bringing together industry, consumers and knowledge institutions to develop, demonstrate, test and evaluate fibre-based packaging for to-go food via proof-of-concept, pilot-scale trials and industrial upscaling. Disposable packaging made of grass brings a lot of environmental benefits. The packaging will be 100% biodegradable, so if someone accidentally drops their packaging in nature, it will decompose naturally, says Anne Christine Steenkjær Hastrup, centre director at Danish Technological Institute, who is coordinating the project.
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Associate Professor Clarissa Schwab from the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University has just received an Ascending Investigator grant of DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for her research project, BioFunc, which aims to improve sustainability in the preservation of food products.
The project focuses on using natural biological preservation methods rather than chemical preservatives in order to eliminate the food waste problem. Worldwide, approximately 30 per cent of the food produced is lost, and the biggest cause is spoilage by bacteria and fungi. Microbial food spoilage and poisoning can occur along the entire value chain, despite modern preservation methods, and bacteria and fungi are therefore a problem for the consumer, and for the entire food industry, which guarantees food safety and quality, and which also wants to reduce waste, says Clarissa Schwab.
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International Collaboration Receives EU Grant to Produce Green Ammonia
Written by AZoCleantechJan 25 2021
Horizon 2020 the EU framework programme for research and innovation will grant DKK 21 million to a new international collaboration to explore new ways of creating green ammonia. Engineering researchers from Aarhus University are heading the new project.
Chemical plant for Haber-Bosch production of ammonia and nitrogen fertilization. Image Credit: Istock.
A grant of about EUR 2.8 million (DKK 21 million) from Horizon 2020 the EU framework programme for research and innovation will allow a team of researchers from the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University to head an international teamwork aiming to design novel technologies to generate green ammonia.
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A grant of approx. DKK 21 million (EUR 2.8 million) from the EU framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020 will help a research team from the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University to lead a global collaboration aiming to develop new technologies to produce green ammonia.
In terms of volume, ammonia is today one of the ten most important chemicals manufactured globally. The substance is primarily used in the production of fertilisers for modern agriculture, but has lately been envisaged as an opportunity to reduce carbon footprint for other industries, for instance the marine sector.
However, ammonia production is currently far from sustainable and carbon-free. The primary method of producing the annual approx. 235 million tonnes of ammonia used the world over is the Haber-Bosch process, which was invented more than 100 years ago.