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Algae Cultivation

    Home Algae Cultivation

    Plastica Alfa has developed a specific know-how related to conversion processes biochemistry of CO2 in algal biomass. This knolowdge has been developed since 2012 through  BIO4BIO Project (Biomolecular and Energy Valorization of Residual Biomass in the Agro-Industrial Sector) financed by Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) and the C3 Project – Carbon Capture & Conversion funded by Ministry of Economic Development ( MISE).

    Microalgae constitute one of the most interesting microbial systems in the biotechnology sector in terms of the huge potential in the renewable energy sector, in the field of wastewater purification, but above all in the field of food supplementation, feedstuff products, and chemicals and pharmaceutical products.

    Plastica Alfa | Algae Cultivation

    These microbial systems are unicellular aquatic plant organisms whose growth, suitably favored by nutrient salts, light and carbon dioxide, can be considerably faster than that of terrestrial plants. This makes the microalgae particularly suitable for the absorption of CO2 for the production of biomolecules.

    Considerable worldwide investments are being made to build large-scale plants for the targeted production of specific compounds for the feed, cosmetics, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical sectors. These fields specifically require purity levels of the compounds that must be produced through completely different systems so that investments in this sector are moving from “open pond” towards the realization of plants consisting of closed photobioreactors.

    The specific interest for the algal growth sector is directly linked to the Company’s core business: Plastica Alfa, active in the world of water for over 30 years, produces all the components and accessories suitable for the development of close photobioreactos based plants, a technology considered more suitable and profitable for industrial purposes.

    Plastica Alfa has specialized in:

    CONSULTING
    Development of integrated biochemical CO2 conversion projects for algal growth
    Development of algae cultivation procedures studied ad hoc for the different selected algal strains
    Development of inoculum procedures on an industrial scale by laboratory inoculation
    Start up large scale facilities

    DESIGN
    Preliminary design and executive design of industrial scale algal cultivation plants
    Feasibility studies
    Study and design of downstream processes for specific products

    SUPPLY
    Realization of turnkey plants with closed photobioreactors on an industrial and laboratory scale
    Preparation of inoculum (algal solution) for industrial plants
    Equipment and specific process auxiliaries necessary for the realization of the algal growth plant

    Plastica Alfa has specialized in particular in the integration of algal plants with industrial plants to recover energy thermal waste, CO2 from exhaust gas streams, process waters, with a view to the applied circular economy on an industrial scale.

    The diagram shows an example of integration between biogas biomethane production plant and an algal growth plant

    Plastica Alfa, in addition to the development of algal cultivation plants in vertical and / or horizontal configuration, designs specific dowstream processes for the separation and extraction of particular compounds.

    An example of cultivation of Haematococcus Pluvialis for the extraction of Astaxanthin (one of the most important carotenoids for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical sector) is shown below


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    95041 Caltagirone (CT) – Italy
    P.IVA IT 01826360875

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