B.1 Demonstration plant for collagen derivatives extraction

This action is devoted to every activities related to the develolpment of demonstration plant: 

 B1.1 Demonstration plant design

 B1.2 Construction and set-up of the demonstration plant Unit 1

→ B1.3 Construction of demonstration plant Unit 2 and set-up (in progress) 

                                                     Unit 1                                                                                                                   Unit 2

                                         Hydrolysis Reactor (5 m3)                                                                          Protein water concentrator (2m3)                

                                         LIFE byProtVal pilot plant is located in Almazán, Soria -Spain with 100 protein Tn/year capacity

 → B1.4 Process optimisation at the Demonstration Plant (in progress)

 B1.5 Input/output characterisation: properties analysed includes moisture, ash, fat and collagen content, elemental analysis, particle size, density. After this comparison total aminoacid profile was developed in order to evaluate the potential of the recovery protein hydrolysates for application as biostimulants being in glycine and in glutamic acid higher for category 3 wastewater. Both amino acids have the same behaviour for plant performance such as: improvement chlorophyll production, enhance plant growth, and nutrient uptake.