Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

Inria Chile

Associate Team involved in the International Lab:

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 expertises 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).

Other IIL projects

BIOCORE is involved in the Bionature project from Inria Chile – CIRIC (the Communication and Information Research and Innovation Center), in collaboration with four Chilean universities (Universidad de Chile, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, and Universidad de la Frontera). The Bionature project is devoted to natural resources management and the modeling and control of bioprocesses.

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

GRIMCAPE, Université de Douala, Cameroon. Epidemiology.

National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India. Modelling of augmentative biological control.

Univ. Ben Gurion : Microalgal Biotechnology Lab (IL), Member of the ESSEM COST Action ES1408 European network for algal-bioproducts (EUALGAE). Modelling of photosynthesis.

Universidad de la Frontera (CL), Modelling of CO${}_2$ transfer in a microalgal absorption column.