The main goal for the PIPE project is to test cutting edge technologies, to separate water and organic material from pelagic industries effluents and to characterize as well as valorise the organic material collected.
The innovative values of PIPE is threefold:
- for the first time, technologies such as ceramic membranes and electrochemistry will be tested and their efficiency in separating organic matter from effluents will be investigated;
- the functionality and bioactivity of components from pelagic industries effluents will be evaluated;
- at the same time, the potential market value of the recovered fractions will be studied.
WHY
Volumes of effluents from herring processing industries are important and their organic loads are high, which means that the cost imparted for their discharge is substantial. However, the processing effluents also contain molecules with good market potential which are discarded.
Technological separation solutions available today do not fit the herring industries due to their poor flux and their poor chemical tolerance and also because they are not well suited for recovery of organic fractions. PIPE will test cutting edge technologies to address sustainability and water purification challenges.
VISION
The visions with the PIPE project are to test cutting edge technologies to address sustainability and effluents fractionation challenges and to characterize as well as valorise the organic material collected from herring industries effluents and thereby increase sustainability.
WHO is in the project?
Project owner
Caroline P. Baron
DTU - Technical University of Denmark, DK
Project leader
Caroline P. Baron
DTU - Technical University of Denmark, DK
Project members
Ingrid Undeland
Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Jesper Ditlev Freisleben
LiqTech, DK
Christian Kemp
A-factory, DK
Susanne Folmer
Lykkeberg A/S, DK
Christer Mattsson
Paul Mattsson AB, SE
Sigurd Fredriksen
Xylem, NO
Carsten Østerberg
Fisk og Fødevare Support, DK