Project NATUR-EXT

Development of a platform focused on the extraction and use of renewable biomass that promotes the related industrial sector, focused on a circular biotechnological model that seeks to minimize pollution and maximize the use of renewable energy.

The objective is to consolidate an Atlantean platform for processing and posting native biomass, broad and versatile, which seeks to obtain extracts from the use of natural resources, transforming them into a high-value final product and revaluing available waste.

There will be institutions from different regions that will provide you with techniques and methodologies. This objective will be the protection and preservation of natural resources, restoration, conservation, improvement and support for ecosystems related to agriculture and aquaculture, seeking the long-term sustainability of the project and the conservation of the identity of the environmental/cultural and industrial heritage.

Determination, optimization and validation of techniques and methods for extracting mature compounds from native biomass, under a traceability framework. 

Aims at the study and development of new extractive techniques that allow the satisfactory obtaining of high-value compounds, through their integration and industrial valorization.

The rich biodiversity that the Macaronesia region has is known. However, its economic, scientific and industrial use is limited by the lack of technical-scientific support that allows its viability and use, encouraging the disuse of the region's rich native resources, which have not found a way to overcome this problem.

NATUR-EXT was born as a solution to this problem, through the creation of a bio-industrial platform focused on the transformation of biological raw materials. This industrial need requires the option of biotechnological solutions that allow us to offer sustainable and respectful growth models. All this, within a circular economy framework that promotes the development of value chains in favor of optimal waste management, the resolution of problems, environmental issues, the recovery and use of soil, making use of EERR generation systems for self-consumption , forming a closed and sustainable cycle. The platform will cover the various stages that enable the viability of a product from its research on an experimental scale to its scaling and transfer to industry.

This objective requires showing the business sector the potential and need to move from a linear economy to a circular economy, involving training tasks. This training will be extended to third countries, allowing the advancement of a sector that goes beyond the borders of Macaronesia.

• Case-by-case study of the most ideal extractive technique with the least environmental impact to obtain the compound with high added value;
• Optimization of operational conditions for extractive techniques;
• Validation of the extractive technique. Performance studies;
• Development and validation of analytical determination methods;
• Sample traceability studies;
• Characterization of the compounds obtained;
• Traceability studies;
• Study and development of extractive techniques for emerging compounds;
• Purification and characterization of the compounds obtained;
• Toxicity and applicability studies;
• Scaling of extractive techniques on a laboratory or semi-industrial scale;
• Optimization of the scaling process to ensure technical and economic viability;
• Study and marketing of mature compounds;
• Study of the future framework for composites emerging in the industrial sector of the Canary Islands;
• Internal training program;
• Virtual training for third countries;
• Control and recording of activities carried out;