Massimo Iannetta - Head of Technical Unit on «Sustainable
development and Innovation of Agroindustry system»
ENEA, National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and
Sustainable economic development, Rome - Italy
“BioEconomy between Food & Non-Food: the Italian Way” Stato dell’arte, traiettorie di sviluppo ed opportunità per l’Italia
Expo 2015 – Sala Auditorium Cascina Triulza
Milano, 26 maggio 2015 ore 14.30 – 18.00
FOOD4ENERGY
GLOBAL FOOD DEMAND: the crucial commodities
GLOBAL FOOD DEMAND and RAW MATERIALS PRICES
(UN FAO 2011)
GLOBAL FOOD OFFER and FOOD LOSSES AND WASTE
Source: American Journal of agricultural economics, 2010
GLOBAL FOOD OFFER and RESOURCES AVAILABILITY
WATER and ENERGY
In the EU, energy production is the greatest source of water consumption (44%), first cooling water. In 2010, global water withdrawals for energy use accounted for about 15% of total global water use.
The 2030 Water Resources Group report “Charting Our Water Future” estimates that by 2030 the world’s demand for water will be 40% higher than it is today, and more than 50% higher in the most rapidly developing countries.
FOOD, WATER and ENERGY (The Nexus approach)
• The continuous economic growth is unsustainable from the environmental point of view; the absence of growth is unsustainable from the social point of view.
• The crisis periods will be more and more frequent and we need to develop «Resilience» capacity: Data revolution, Adaptative management, Open Innovation between research organizations, enterprises, institutions and society.
• the Nexus approach can contribute to overcome this issue, looking at the Bioeconomy and Green Economy.
The Change of Paradigm for Innovation En
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Sustainable Economic Development
Bioeconomy Green Technologies - BAT
Conventional Technologies
Cultural shift for Innovation New competitive and eco-innovative processes should be
developed, within the framework of a transition towards a more resource-efficient, sustainable economy.
- Omics sciences
- Plant selection and Breeding
- Biotechnologies for the adaptation to biotic/abiotic stresses
- Integrated Pest Management
- Agroecosystem models, GIS and remote sensing integration for precision farming and global warming effects analysis
- Agronomic techniques based on energy efficiency to reduce CO2 emission
- Technologies to recover energy, chemicals and nutraceuticals from waste, residuals and sub-products along all the food chain
- ICT Platform to support bioenergy production plants
- Process and Product innovation
- Monitoring technologies for fresh food shelf life
- Platforms for Food Safety, traceability and authenticity
- etc.
Iannetta, Milano, May 21, 2015
Challenges: Bioeconomy and Circular Economy
Food supply chains produce large amounts of residues
Economic as well environmental cost to manage or dispose the processing residues are quite high for food enterprises
New legislation and environmental and energy goals impose to change food enterprises attitudes and behaviour
Residues are not waste but raw materials for new products
The Cascade principle
Sequential Step
FEEDSTOCK
FOOD
1st biobased product
2nd Bio-based product
3rd Bio-based product
Energy use
Energy use
MU
LTI
STA
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SCA
DIN
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Market
The strategy is based on the use of so-called ‘cascades of use’ that flow from higher levels of the value chain down to lower levels, increasing the productivity of the raw material.
“Extracting”
added value
Farms FOOD enterprises
Feedstock
• Cereals
• Grapes
• Olives
• Milk
• etc.
Trasformation
Pasta…
Wine
Oil
Cheese
etc.
Residues
Straw/stalks/lees/
pomace /wastewater/
whey, etc.
Food company traditional pathway
Reuse for animals
Energy uses
Field distribution
Outside plant FARM
New approaches, new productions
Integrating the food chain actors and streams Who drives what !
Feedstok
• Cereals
• Grapes
• Olives
• Milk
• etc.
Trasformation
Pasta…
Wine
Oil
Cheese
etc.
Residues
Straw/stalks/lees/
pomace / wastewater
whey, etc.
New products
Energy use
New approaches, new productions
Three main objectives Circularity
Local Farm and Food enterprises symbiosis
Cascading value approach
What does it means ? Rethinking productive cycle
Looking for cooperation, connection
Introducing new technologies and innovation
New markets
From theory to ……..
Scaling up
Demonstrate
Co-products Market growth
Energy and Water driven
…..practice
Farm dairy plant local symbiosis
Close relationship between local enterprises and farms to share energy, residues, inputs,
exploiting synergies saving money and avoiding environmental costs
Cattle
breeding
Farms
Milk Milk and cheese production
Heat Electricity
CHP engine
AD plant Digestate
Methane whey
processing residues
Crops Silage / residues
Liquid / solid manure
Grid Dairy plant
AD plant
CHP
(ENEA Project)
UF
Whey
NF DL
NF DK
UF/DF
Permeate Retentate (whey protein)
Retentate (whey protein)
Lactose
Bioreactor
Permeate
Retentate
Permeate (Water+Salt)
Q= 2500 lt/h
Q= 2000 lt/h
Q= 7000 lt/h
A=6m2
A=8,5m2
A=8,5m2
Water
Permeate
Many potential pathways
Lactose
Biogas
Anaerobic digester
Recovering energy value via AD or combustion or what else is an opportunity, reduce cost, decrease emission, earning money and more….
Using specific bacterial strains and enzymatic process, is possible to transform the lactose into lactic acid and then produce bioplastics
In this case study, we have treated about 500 lt of whey (ENEA Project)
Mobile plant, based on Ceramic and Polymeric Filtration at pilot scale, works directly on fresh residues production at farm level
Demonstration and test plants (ENEA Project)
The organic load is very high. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) is between 100 and 190 g /l of O2 and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is between 50 and 140 g /l of oxygen.
Oil mill wastewater
(ENEA Project)
Innovative Enterprise
In 2009, the new company PhenoFarm Ltd. implemented the system based on the ENEA patent at industrial scale in Scandriglia (Lazio)
November 2009, Genelab operates the plant in the first oil campaign as consultant of PhenoFarm
June 2010 Genelab leads the educational training of new PhenoFarm staff and remains stable consultant for plant optimization and quality control of final products
Currently Phenofarm produces and markets several products (plant compounds) for food and cosmetics use
In 2008, the working group Genelab (ENEA start up) won the invitation FILAS business lab with the project "Biophenolive"
(ENEA Project)
This work has been developed under ENEA projects dealing with agroindustry, energy and residues recovery via innovative integrated systems
EU
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SOFIA - Agro-Food Technological Cluster IT
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Il 19 maggio scorso, la Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking ha pubblicato il primo bando relativo ai progetti ‘Flagships’, per un ammontare di 100 miioni €. Gli argomenti oggetti di questo bando riguardano progetti di innovazione ("Flagships") focalizzati sui Topic: •BBI.VC1.F1: From lignocellulosic feedstock to advanced bio-based chemicals, materials or ethanol •BBI.VC2.F2: Valorisation of cellulose into new added value products •BBI.VC4.F3: Innovative processes for sugar recovery and conversion from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) La scadenza è per il 15 settembre 2015 - (single stage call) I prossimi bandi della JTI BBI su ricerca e innovazione e dimostrativi (RIA e Demo, per altrettanti 100M€) saranno pubblicati il prossimo giugno-luglio. Link: JTI Bio-based industries: http://www.bbi-europe.eu/ Participant Portal: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/ calls/h2020-bbi-ppp-2015-1-1.html
ENEA’s presence in Expo is in the spotlight through the Vertical Farm, a prototype of vertical greenhouse exhibited within the Future Food District. The Vertical Farm is a technological representation of sustainable food production, setting new standards in five areas of interest: land, sustainable agriculture, water, energy and safe food. ENEA’s vertical farm means zero land (hydroponic system), zero pesticides, zero emissions, zero waste, total recycling of water and fertilizers, as well as green and efficient energy, thanks to the use of renewable energy sources.
ENEA Vertical Farm prototype
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