Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

GREENCORE

• Title: Modelling and control for energy producing bioprocesses

• International Partners (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • CIRIC (Chile) - Mélaine Gautier

  • PUCV (Chile) - Escuela de Ingenieria Bioquimica (EIB) - Gonzalo Ruiz Filippi

  • UTFSM (Chile) - Departamento de Matematica - Eduardo Cerpa

  • UFRO (Chile) - Chemical Engineering Department - David Jeison

• Start year: 2014

• See also: https://team.inria.fr/eagreencore/

• The worldwide increasing energy needs together with the ongoing demand for CO2 neutral fuels represent a renewed strong driving force for the production of energy derived from biological resources. In this scenario, the culture of oleaginous microalgae for biofuel and the anaerobic digestion to turn wastes into methane may offer an appealing solution. The main objective of our proposal is to join our expertise and tools, regarding these bioprocesses, in order to implement models and control strategies aiming to manage and finally optimize these key bioprocesses of industrial importance. By joining our expertise and experimental set-up, we want to demonstrate that closed loop control laws can significantly increase the productivity, ensure the bioprocess stability and decrease the environmental footprint of these systems. This project gathers experts in control theory and optimization (BIOCORE, UTFSM) together with experts in bioprocesses (PUCV and UFRO) and software development (CIRIC).