Themes
  • Agri-food
  • Energy
  • Recovery
Amount granted
$15,000

Description

The project aims to develop a new way to recover liquid digestates from methanization by producing microalgae as a solution to reduce the cost of the feeding regime used to rear black soldier fly larvae, as well as the cost to dispose of the waters.  

The proposed approach is to have a microalgae culture use the liquid digestates from methanization and then set out a feeding regime of microalgae and solid digestates.

What separates this proposal from others is the fact that it interweaves a circular innovation project in an emerging circular economy loop. The innovation lies in the development of a less costly feeding regime to rear black soldier fly larvae whose main component is the production of microalgae from liquid digestate from methanization (a waste).

This new approach to liquid digestate management and the production of edible and decomposer insects fits seamlessly into the circular economies of several cities and regions across Québec and around the world.

Affiliated research axes

Axis 2: Planning Optimization

2.4 – Plan and optimize the production of products and delivery of services in the context of the circular economy

Axis 3: Resource and Product Maximization

3.2 – Develop a conceptual framework of tools that may be mobilized to identify better circularization scenarios for products, components and resources at the end of their life cycles
3.3 – Identify models for product circularization strategies

Member(s)

  • Grant Vandenberg

    Full Professor
  • Simon Barnabé

    Ph.D. Professor
  • Marie-Hélène Deschamps

    Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Collaborators

Kokou Adjallé

INRS Centre eau

Céline Vaneeckhaute

Université Laval

Marc-André Déry

Innofibre

Frédéric Marier

Nutrimago

Karméla Beaudouin

Nutrimago

Daipiero Gomez

Université Laval
The RRECQ is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Fonds de recherche - Québec