Autor(es):
Blomme, Rose-Farah ; Domissy, Zoé ; Dylik, Zuzanna ; Hidding, Thomas ; Röhe, Alina ; Duarte, Abel J. ; BENEDITA CAMPOS NEVES MALHEIRO, MARIA ; JUSTO, Jorge ; Ferreira, Paulo ; Guedes, Pedro ; Castro Ribeiro, Maria Cristina de ; Silva, Manuel
Data: 2025
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/29875
Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Assunto(s): Engineering Education; European Project Semester; Fish and Algae Symbiosis; Smart Food Production; Sustainability
Descrição
The European Project Semester (EPS) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) is a capstone engineering design program where students, organised in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, create a solution for a proposed problem, bearing in mind ethical, sustainability and market concerns. The project proposals are usually aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). New sustainable food production methods are essential to cope with the continuous population growth and aligned with SDG2 and SDG12. In this context, this paper describes the research and work done by a team of Erasmus students enrolled in EPS@ISEP during the spring of 2022. Since sustainable algae farming can be a suitable source of food, the team's goal was the design and develop a proof-of-concept prototype, named GREEN·flow, of a symbiotic aquaponic system to farm algae and fish. The smart GREEN·flow concept comprises a modular structure and an app for control and supervision. The proposed design was driven by state-of-the-art research, targeted to a specific market niche based on a market analysis, and considering sustainability and ethics concerns, all of which are described in this manuscript. A proof-of-concept prototype was built and tested to verify that it worked as intended.
