Objectives
The Deep Purple project aims to promote the transformation of diluted urban biowaste, including mixed waste streams, the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW), wastewater (WW) and sewage sludge (SS), into raw materials for the bio-industry to obtain sustainable bioproducts.
This revolutionary concept will be implemented in a new multi-platform concept (biomass, cellulose and biogas) on a single site, designed to replace current polluting destruction practices with new value-added concepts.
Several high value-added products will be produced during the course of the project:
- Ectoin-based cosmetics
- Biobased materials for packaging applications based on PHAs and CNFs (cellulose nanofibrils)
- Biobased polyesters for film applications
- Self-healing material for the construction industry
- Slow-release organic fertilizer
Partners
- FCC Aqualia
- Activatec
- RNB S.L
- NaturePlast
- FCC SA
- Itene
- Brunel University
- Novamont Spa
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Alchemia-Nova NPO
- A
- Gate2Growth
- Universidad Valladolid
- Roullier Group
Natureplast intervention
NaturePlast is in charge of Work Package 4: Industrial application of materials and products.
NaturePlast is also in charge of R&D for the formulation and production of compounds based on the PHAs and CNFs produced by the project pilot. Thanks to its expertise and dedicated equipment, it is able to process and characterize compounds based on PHAs and CNFs obtained from the biorefinery.
