Development of an integrated biorefinery for processing chitin rich biowaste to specialty and fine chemicals
ChiBio is a large integrated R&D project funded through the FP7 KBBE
Programme of the European Union www.chibiofp7.eu
Grant agreement no: 289284

• Project Motive
• What is in crustacean waste?
• What is Chitin? And what are its applications?
• ChiBio Refinery and project PERT Chart
• Who is involved in this project?
• Work Package 2 (WP2)-Fishery Waste Pretreatment
• WP2 Objectives
• WP2 Achievements
• Questions

The European fishery industry is a major source of industrial biowaste in Europe. The processing of
crustaceans (e.g. shrimps and crabs) in the EU alone results in more than ~750.000 t/a of shell waste 1 and globally it is estimated at 1.44 million metric tons

• Protein
• Calcium Carbonate
• Carotenoids
• Polysaccharides- Chitin > Chitosan

• Naturally occurring polysaccharide, second most abundant in nature next to cellulose
• Chitin and its deacetylated derivative chitosan are exceptionally useful polymers
• They are biodegradable, non-toxic and biocompatible making them useful in a range of applications

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fertilizer to improve crops
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Wound and burn treatmentincreases healing time
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additive to stabilise foods
• Water treatment, the paper and textile industries and tissue engineering

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Participant no.
1 (Coordinator)
Short name
Participant organisation name
FhG
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten
Forschung e.V.
TUM Technische Universität München
LIT Letterkenny Institute of Technology
UMB The Norwegian University of Life Sciences
INS Institute National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer
APR Apronex s.r.o.
ERF EARAGAIL EISC TEORANTA (Errigal Fish Company LTD)
EVO Evonik Industries AG
SCAG Südchemie AG
EIL Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz GmbH
PTS PT Biotech Surindo
Country
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CZ
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Carla Harkin
Dr. Denis McCrudden
Dr. Wolfram Bruck
Dr. Catherine Lynch

• Acquire crustacean shell wastes (Europe/Asia/Africa)
• Pretreatment of crustacean shell wastes to chitin and chitinous material (Raw/Cooked/Chemical/Microbial/Size)
• Stabilization for transportation (moist/dry/purity)
• Setting up analytical methods for constant quality control for chitin/chitinous material (Determination of optimum assays for
QC)

• QC methods established: solubility of product, water and fat solubility, degree of deacetylation, ash, FTIR, moisture, microbial load, nitrogen content (Kjeldahl), and composition of raw materials (AA).
• Protocols generated for chemical and microbial isolation of chitinous materials.
• Batches of chitinous material have been sent to the project partners fulfilling our work targets

References
FAOSTAT, FAO statistical databases, fisheries data. 2001. Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy,
( http://www.fao.org
).
THANKS