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AgriChemWhey: transforming dairy waste into new added-value products

Updated on 21.06.2024

AgriChemWhey's overall objective is to build a first-of-a-kind industrial-scale and economically successful biorefinery with integrated symbiotic industrial and agricultural value chains to valorise dairy waste.

Acronym: AgriChemWhey
Countries: Ireland, Belgium, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany
Project website: www.agrichemwhey.com
Start and end date: 01.01.2018 - 30.04.2027
Budget: 29 949 323 EUR
Funding source: Horizon 2020

More information

More specifically, the project aims to:

 

  • Optimise and scale-up process biorefinery technologies
  • Establish a new dairy processing by-products to high value-added products value chain
  • Establish industrial symbiosis with local partners to valorise side streams arising from the biorefinery process
  • Ensure techno-economic viability and successful long-term commercial operation of the biorefinery
  • Develop a blueprint for replication of the AgriChemWhey model in other regions across Europe

Relevance for Circular Systemic Solutions

This project can serve as an example and inspiration for cities and regions working on CSSs related to bioeconomy. The project website can help interested parties with updates through the newsletters and press releases. Specially, actors aiming to scale up biorefineries with integrated symbiotic industrial and agricultural value chains to valorise dairy waste can benefit the most from this project's work.

Horizon programme and topic

Programme:

 

  • H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

 

Topic:

 

  • BBI-2016-F01 - Valorisation of by-products or waste-streams from the food processing industry into high added-value products for market applications

Responsible organisation and contact details

TIRLÁN LIMITED

 

Contact the project: https://www.agrichemwhey.com/contact/

Project consortium partners

  • TIRLÁN LIMITED
  • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND
  • DUBLIN
  • GALACTIC SA
  • THE PROVOST
  • FELLOWS
  • FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD
  • OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
  • COMMERCIAL MUSHROOM PRODUCERS CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD
  • PNO CONSULTANTS LIMITED
  • GIG KARASEK GMBH
  • TIPPERARY COUNTY COUNCIL
  • TEAGASC - AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
  • POLE GREENWIN
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
  • EW BIOTECH GMBH
Sectors

CEAP2 key product value chain

CEAP2 key product value chain

CEAP2 key product value chain

CEAP2 key product value chain

including bio-based economy

e.g. chemicals, cosmetics, bio-based industries

Territories involved

large 500 000-200 000, medium 200 000-50 000, and small cities 50 000-5 000

large metropolitan area >1.5 million, metropolitan area 1.5 million-500 000

predominantly urban regions, intermediate and predominantly rural regions, refer to TERCET typology NUTS 3 region

Intra-territorial areas

e.g. commercial, residential, service, industrial