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InduZymes - Value added biorefinery enzymes produced from waste streams
- Project Leader
- Nyanhongo Gibson Stephen, BOKU Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.05.2017-30.04.2020
- Programme:
- Produktion der Zukunft - Kooperative F&E-Projekte - Industrielle Forschung
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Project partners
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Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH , Inffeldgasse 21b, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Contact person: Markus Ortner;
Function of the Project Partner: Koordinator -
Laakirchen Papier AG , Schillerstraße 5 , 4663 Laakirchen , Austria.
Contact person: Katharina Prall;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
SARIA GmbH , Zur Bildereiche 3, 3430 Tulln, Austria.
Contact person: Erich Neunteufel;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- Staff
- Gübitz Georg, Sub Projectleader
- Haske-Cornelius Oskar, Project Staff (bis 30.06.2021)
- Weiß Renate, Project Staff
- Tadic Toma, Project Staff (bis 31.12.2019)
- Eischer Anna, Project Staff (bis 30.09.2019)
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute for Environmental Biotechnology
- Abstract
- Modern circular bioeconomy concepts undoubtedly involve the generation of value-added products by using modern, specific and efficient technologies. Enzymes as powerful biocatalysts are already used in many biorefineries. In the pulp and paper industry, environmentally friendly enzyme based processes such as for deinking, bleaching or refining have been developed more than 20 years ago, while implementation is still restricted due to the high enzymes cost. On the other hand, valuable components like residual cellulose fibres in waste streams, such as from deinking of recycled paper are currently under-exploited. Similarly, due to various reasons nitrogen rich waste streams from abattoirs are primarily used for energy production. Building on these facts, the major aim of this InduZyme project is the in-house production of enzymes used in the P & P and waste processing industries using cellulose present in deinking sludge as carbon source and abattoir waste as a nitrogen source and source of other essential nutrients for microbial growth.
The use of such waste streams, consequently not only leads to value added products namely enzymes (InduZymes) that are required by these industrial partners at lower cost but also reduces the amount of waste generated in the respective industrial processes . Hence, the InduZyme concept, after subsequent optimization and industrial scale-up will allow the companies to save cost both due to on-site enzyme production and due to converting waste difficult to dispose into valuable products. In detail, the tasks of InduZyme will involve enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose fiber in deinking sludge in order to produce valuable sugars as carbon source for microbial enzyme production. Thereby, the nitrogen as well as other essential nutrients needed for microbial growth will be recovered from protein rich abattoir waste streams. Enzyme production will be accessed for e.g. cellulases, hemicellulases, lipases, proteases needed by the same industries for e.g. deinking and production of biodiesel, amongst for other enzyme based processes. This concept is novel and economically attractive since in contrast to many other concepts a market and demand for the value-added biorefinery products (i.e. the enzymes) already exists within the companies.
- Keywords
- Environmental biotechnology; Enzyme technology; Fermentation; Industrial biotechnology;
- Bio refinery; Enzymes; Paper producing industry; Abattoir waste;
- Publications
- Vorträge
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Weiß, R (2021): Induzymes: Produktion von Enzymen unter Verwendung von industriellen Abfällen.
Stakeholderdialog Biobased Industry, DEZ 15, 2021, Vienna, Austria -
Weiss, R; Nyanhongo, G; Guebitz, G (2021): Production of enzymes from meat and pulp processing waste streams.
ÖGMBT Life Science Tuesday: Production Systems of the Future, March 24, 2021, online -
Weiss, R; Nyanhongo, G; Guebitz, G (2019): New Opportunities to Valorize Pulp and Paper Mill Side Streams.
Seminar, Dez 17, 2019, University of Milano