ENGICOIN Overview
The ENGICOIN proposal aims at the development, from TRL3 to TRL5, of three new microbial factories (MFs), integrated in an organic waste anaerobic digestion (AD) platform, based on engineered strains exploiting CO2 sources and renewable solar radiation or H2 for the production of value-added chemicals, namely:
MF.1
MF.2
MF.3
High process integration will be guaranteed by taking advantage of low-grade heat sources, exploitable side gas streams, low-price electricity produced during night-time by a biogas-fired-engine cogeneration unit or even intensified operation conditions. This is an essential feature, to achieve competitive selling prices for the key target products.
Notwithstading the key application platform, the innovative production processes developed have a great exploitation potential in other application contexts!