BIOSMARTFERT- BIOpolymers from agri-food waste digestates for SMART release bioFERTilisers

BIOSMARTFERT- BIOpolymers from agri-food waste digestates for SMART release bioFERTilisers

Duration: 12 Oct 2023 – 11 Oct 2025 (2 years)

Principal Investigator: Grazia Masciandaro (CNR-IRET)

Contact person in IPCF: S. Bronco

Other research units (contact person): Università di Pisa (Renato Iannelli); Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Antonio Panico)

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ERC Sector:LS9 “Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering”

Keywords: biopolymers; PHA; PHB; agri-food waste; slow-release biofertilizers; anaerobic fermentation; hydrogel; NMR

In the circular economy approach, the BIOSMARTFERT project aims at defining the production chain of a new generation of renewable biofertilisers with a modulated release, defined as SMART release FERTilisers (SRF), derived from digestate of biowaste. Granulated SRF will be produced firstly from an anaerobic biorefinery by treating agri-food wastes; then they will be encapsulated and covered with degradable biopolymers such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), extracted form biomass produced by anaerobic biorefinery processes.

Other IPCF people involved in the research activities: C. De Monte