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Crustacean waste biorefinery as a sustainable cost-effective business model
Vicente, Filipa A.; Ventura, Sónia P. M.; Passos, Helena; Dias, Ana C. R. V.; Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Novak, Uroš; Likozar, BlažMarine-derived food wastes mainly include seafood, fish and feed production resources. From the crustaceans traded annually, 6 to 8 million tonnes of valuable shrimp, lobster and/or crab shells waste are produced worldwide. In this systemic work, the researchers with complementary technical expertise, covering the fields of chemical engineering design, chemistry, materials, predictive environmental sciences and...
Economic analysis of the production and recovery of green fluorescent protein u...
Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Santos, Nathalia dos [UNESP]; Ventura, Sonia P. M.; Coutinho, Joao A. P.; Rito-Palomares, Marco; Pereira, Jorge F. B. [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T11:23:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal); Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a useful biomol...
Extraction of chlorophyll from wild and farmed Ulva spp. using aqueous solution...
Martins, Margarida; Fernandes, Andreia P. M.; Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Collén, Pi Nyvall; Abreu, Maria H.; Ventura, Sónia P. M.Products extracted from natural resources are an increasing trend in several fields promoted by consumer demand. Allied to the importance attached to the concept of “natural product” should be the way the “natural product” is obtained. In this work, chlorophyll was extracted from batches of wild-harvested and farm-raised green macroalgae Ulva spp. from two different European locations, Portugal and France. The ...
Economic analysis of the production and recovery of green fluorescent protein u...
Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; dos Santos, Nathalia V.; Ventura, Sónia P. M.; Coutinho, João A. P.; Rito-Palomares, Marco; Pereira, Jorge F. B.Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a useful biomolecule in biotechnology; however, its price makes its widespread application prohibitive. To overcome this issue, recently, the use of aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) for GFP purification was proposed as an alternative platform to reduce processing costs. Aligned with this goal, this study performed bioprocess modelling coupled with economic analysis using the s...
The “bright side” of Cyanobacteria: revising the nuisance potential and prospec...
Macário, Inês P. E.; Ventura, Sónia P. M.; Gonçalves, Fernando J. M.; Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Pereira, Joana L.Global warming and the anthropogenic degradation of water quality are pointed out as main causes of the worldwide increase in frequency, severity, and duration of harmful algal blooms (HABs). Cyanobacteria, major constituents of HABs, can cause ecological, economic, and human health problems, configuring a “dark side” requiring management attention. Their growth can be potentiated by climate change consequences...
Extraction and Fractionation of Pigments from Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus, 2...
Martins, Margarida; Mesquita, Leonardo M. de Souza; Vaz, Bárbara M.C.; Dias, Ana C.R.V.; Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Quéguineur, BenoitThere is a strong industrial interest in the development of greener and more sustainable processes based on the use of renewable resources, and a biorefinery based on marine resources, such as macroalgae, stands as a major opportunity toward that end. In this work, Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus), a brown macroalga, was used as a source of pigments to develop an integrated platform that is able to promote the e...
Recovering PHA from mixed microbial biomass: Using non-ionic surfactants as a p...
Colombo, Bianca; Joana Sofia Pereira; Martins, Margarida; Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Dias, Ana C.R.V.; Lemos, Paulo C.; Ventura, Sónia P. M.Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are biodegradable plastics of microbial origin, whose biodegradability and thermochemical properties make them greener alternatives to conventional plastics. Despite their high industrial potential, the PHA’ high production costs still hinder their application. Mixed microbial biomass combined with agro-industrial wastes are being used to strategically reduce these costs. However, it...
Economic evaluation of the primary recovery of tetracycline with traditional an...
Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Pereira, Jorge F. B. [UNESP]; Freire, Mara G.; Aguilar-Yanez, Jose M.; Coutinho, Joao A. P.; Titchener-Hooker, Nigel J.Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T16:03:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-09-12; CONACYT; CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials - national funds through the FCT/MEC; FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement; European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Antibioti...
Economic evaluation of the primary recovery of tetracycline with traditional an...
Torres-Acosta, Mario A.; Pereira, Jorge F. B.; Freire, Mara G.; Aguilar-Yáñez, José M.; Coutinho, João A. P.; Titchener-Hooker, Nigel J.Antibiotics are a key pharmaceutical to inhibit growth or kill microorganisms. They represent a profitable market and, in particular, tetracycline has been listed as an essential medicine by the WHO. Therefore it is important to improve their production processes. Recently novel and traditional aqueous two-phase systems for the extraction have been developed with positive results. The present work performs an e...