Great news! The ASSET lab secures, in collaboration with the GFES lab in Alicante, EUR 220k from the Generalitat Valenciana to carry out the 3-year-project VALIGRA (REF: AGROALNEXT/2022/057). This project is framed within a large collaborative initiative at the Valencian Region that aims to develop new technologies to reinvent agricultural practices to make them more sustainable and foster the bioeconomy. This project, particular, strives to set a route to maximize the valorization the biomass waste resulting from the industrial processing of pomegranate. Interestingly, Spain is the biggest producer of this "superfruit" in Europe, and the region of Alicante concentrates over 80% of that production.
[...] VALIGRA strives to set a route to maximize the valorization the biomass waste resulting from the industrial processing of pomegranate. [...] Spain is the biggest producer of this "superfruit" in Europe.
This multidisciplinary project builds upon a unique holistic strategy wherein the synergistic combination of ultrasound-assisted extraction technologies, electrochemical reactors and composting routes yields a mix of high value nutraceutics, fuels and compost from an otherwise “waste” material. Therefore, VALIGRA aims not only at reducing the deleterious impact of such industrial waste to the environment, but more importantly, at upcycling this residue to create sustainable abundance. Below you can find a general scheme that portrays the objectives we pursue in VALIGRA.
Keep an eye on the ASSET website to get posted on our progress in this exciting project!!!!
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