The promotional video of the project is now available both on our YouTube channel and in the multimedia section of the project website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnC6IugNY4I This video shows the wastewater treatment technology for fruit and vegetable processing...

We have available new surveys to know the opinion and interest of the companies about the technology and microalgae products developed in the project once they are already validated. These companies may belong to the fruit and vegetable processing food sector that...

A report on the assessment of effluent and microalgae quality by end use is being developed for the two demonstration sites. This report provides a database including the possible uses of the effluent obtained in the LIFE ALGAECAN project. Therefore, new market...

Due to winter conditions this month, the demonstration has been temporarily shut down, as snow and ice prevent the microalgae ponds from operating. Operation will resume in spring 2021, when VIPI will be back in production season.

Heterotrophic microalgae cultivation tests are being carried out with the wastewater from the agri-food company VIPI. A microalgal inoculum adapted to VIPI wastewater was used in order to compare the efficacy of the treatment with the previously used non-adapted...

The treatment plant is installed at the second demonstration site VIPI, a juice and beverage company. Despite the problems we are experiencing with the Covid-19 pandemic, the first microalgae cultivation with fresh water and algae provided by Algen, experts from the...

Last week the LIFE ALGAECAN project attended the LIFE platform event in relation to urban wastewater treatment and the circular economy in Barcelona on January 29 and 30. This event was organized by EASME (European Commission) and CETaqua (Water Technology Center) and...

The LIFE ALGAECAN project, led by CARTIF, is successfully testing a wastewater treatment system for vegetable processing using microalgae, a pioneering technique in Europe. This initiative is financed by the European Union through the LIFE program, the Union's...

The pilot plant of the LIFE ALGAECAN project located in the Huercasa business group facilities, in the province of Segovia, has started its activity (start-up). During the last days the plant has carried out centrifugation and spray drying operations of the...

On July 1 and 2, the IWAlgae 2019 congress was held at the University of Valladolid (UVa), a joint conference that included the II Congress of the International Association of Water on Algae Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and the Recovery of Resources and the...

El proyecto europeo LIFE ALGAECAN celebró el día 19 de junio su segunda reunión de monitorización en las instalaciones de HUERCASA, en el término municipal de Sanchonuño (Segovia), donde los socios de la iniciativa pusieron en común los avances logrados en el último...

The project's demonstration plant is located in HUERCASA facilities with the photovoltaic system assembled on top and all the equipment ready to start the first tests with HUERCASA's wastewater. The prototype will work with renewable energy (solar and biomass) and in...

Chemistry students from the University of Salamanca visit the laboratories, equipment and pilot plants of CARTIF.The objectives and development of the LIFE ALGAECAN project were presented along with the different equipment used in this wastewater treatment process...

Representatives of Huercasa, a partner in the project, participated this week in the international fresh produce fair FRUIT LOGÍSTICA 2019, which takes place in Berlin between February 6 and 8. The objective of exposing the project is to publicize the main objectives,...

The LIFE ALGAECAN project has participated in the 2nd technical conference 'Circular Economy and Microalgae: Bioproducts for the chemical, energy and agricultural industries', at the facilities of the National Center for Renewable Energies (CENER) in Sarriguren...

The Iberoamerican Congress on Biorefineries celebrates its fourth edition between October 24 and 26, in Jaén, and is consolidated as the scientific congress in which the possibilities of establishing biorefineries in specific areas are presented and valued....

As an example of microalgae cultivation for wastewater treatment, researchers from the LIFE ALGAECAN project have participated in the Symposium on Microalgae Biotechnology in Agriculture, which took place on September 25 and 26 in Trebon (Czech Republic). This event...

The researchers from the ALGEN technology center (Slovenia) working at LIFE Algaecan have visited the CARTIF facilities, in the Boecillo Technology Park (Valladolid), to share with the project coordinators the main advances achieved in the first year. This Slovenian...

Jesús Mª Martín (CARTIF) presented to the attendees of the XLIII INIA Forum for Public-Private Collaboration. "New Sustainable Raw Materials in Food. II" the ALGAECAN project as a case of good practices in wastewater treatment technologies with microalgae and...

Ta teden na grškem otoku Naxos poteka šesta mednarodna konferenca NAXOS 2018 o trajnostnem ravnanju s trdnimi odpadki in krožnem gospodarstvu, ki jo je soorganiziral CARTIF. Predstavniki projekta LIFE Algaecan so si delili glavne napredke, dosežene zdaj, ko projekt...

CARTIF researchers working on the LIFE ALGAECAN project have visited the facilities of two of the project partners in Slovenia to share the first progress of the project since its launch. The first visit was to the AlgEn Technology Center, in Ljubljana, in charge of...

CARTIF researchers carry out the first laboratory tests of the LIFE Algaecan project with the spray dryer, to know the operating conditions of the drying of microalgae, the microorganisms with which this project works to carry out the water treatment residuals from...

The Slovenian company AlgEn, a partner in the project, dedicated to algae technology, participates in the Saltgae consortium meeting, a European project that works on the development and demonstration of a technologically and economically viable solution to the use of...

In the presence of the entire consortium (AlgEn, HUERCASA, VIPI, NTUA and CARTIF) and María Rodríguez, monitor of NEEMO, the LIFE ALGAECAN project has held its first monitoring meeting at the CARTIF facilities, in the Boecillo Technology Park ( Valladolid). The...

Representatives of HUERCASA, a partner of the LIFE ALGAECAN project, participate in the Fruit Logistica 2018 fair, which this year took place in Berlin between 7 and 9 February. The purpose of the participation is to present the main objectives and actions of the...

The team of researchers from the ALGAECAN project visited the demonstration plant of the European All-gas project, inaugurated this week in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz). This plant is the result of seven years of work from this project that has demonstrated that...

As part of the technical actions of the project, the team of researchers from CARTIF visited this week the facilities of the Spanish demonstrator, the HUERCASA vegetable processing factory, to collect samples of wastewater. This action is one of the first to be...

With the presence of all partners, the ALGAECAN project, funded by the EC through the LIFE program, has started today at the CARTIF facilities in Valladolid. The objective of the ALGAECAN project is to develop a demonstration plant for a model of sustainable treatment...

The team of researchers of the LIFE ALGAECAN project at CARTIF has participated in the LIFE16 project launch meeting in Brussels, Belgium. This event, which the European Commission organizes every year in the offices of EASME (European Commission, Executive Agency for...

The ALGAECAN project team from the CARTIF Technology Center visited the area where the project's demonstration plant will be installed at the HUERCASA facilities (Sanchonuño, Segovia). This demonstration plant is one of two that will be built during the development of...