Code
01DI0115
Duration
01 December 2015 → 31 July 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Power electronics
- Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering
- Sustainable and environmental engineering
- Biomaterials engineering
- Biological system engineering
- Biomaterials engineering
- Biomechanical engineering
- Other (bio)medical engineering
- Environmental engineering and biotechnology
- Industrial biotechnology
- Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Fisheries sciences
Keywords
environment
macroalgae
exergy
sustainability
microalgae
resources
LCA
Project description
The objective of this PhD is to access the environmental resource footprint of algae production for several applications (e.g. feed) on a life cycle basis and to compare it with the footprint of the more traditionally used alternatives. Therefore, further development of a LCIA method, able to additionallyt quantify the impact of extracting marine resources and land transformation, is pursued.