Every year farms in Europe produce more than 1.4 billion tonnes of manure which can lead to pollution of air, water and soil. The ManuREfinery project aims to minimize the environmental footprint of livestock farming by developing smart, modular, mobile, and sustainable small-scale decentralized biorefineries that convert livestock manure into novel added-value bio-based feed ingredients and fertilizers. The ManuREfinery process is divided in gas, liquid, and solid valorization lines and is based on several thermo-chemical and biotechnological methods.
HYDROHM is designing and constructing a pilot extraction system consisting of liquid-liquid extraction and bipolar electrodialysis for recovery of caproic acid from a fermenter fed with grass juice.
ManuREfinery is an Innovation Action project funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE-JU) (2024-2028). The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation Programme and the Bio-Based Industries Consortium.