VIVALDI turns co2 emissions into sustainable bioproducts

VIVALDI project will develop an innovative, sustainable and cost-efficient biotechnological solution to convert off-gas emissions from bio-based Industries into CO2-based chemicals. In this way, the industry’s greenhouse gases emissions will not only be reduced, but will be used as a novel feedstock, lowering the dependency on fossil fuels import and the exploitation of key resources such as energy, raw material, freshwater and land.

Project Concept

VIVALDI project will develop an integrated solution to convert the CO2 emissions of bio-industries into 4 added-value organic acids: lactic acid (LA), succinic acid (SA), itaconic acid (IA) and 3-hydroxypropionic.

These acids can re-enter in the production process of biorefineries to enhance their sustainability, or become building blocks for novel biomaterials.

Latest News

07.03.2024 About our partners

LCA studies within the VIVALDI project presented at the 2nd CINEA LCA to CCUS & Alternative Fuels Workshop

On the 7th of March 2024, Jorge Senán Salinas, researcher at our consortium partner BETA Technological Center, presented the work he is carrying out in the VIVALDI project at the 2nd CINEA LCA to CC...
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05.03.2024 About our partners

VIVALDI presented at the CAPTURE’s workshop dedicated to energy use in carbon capture and reuse

On the 4th of March 2024, our colleague Deepak Pant, Senior Scientist at our consortium partner VITO, participated in the workshop on "Considerations and trajectories of energy use in carbon capture a...
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25.02.2024 About the project

VITO and UFZ co-writes a scientific paper dedicated to the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction performance assessment

A collaborative scientific paper, written by our consortium partners VITO and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), has been published today in Advanced Energy & Sustainability Rese...
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From Twitter

📄 Featuring the work done in the VIVALDI project, our colleagues at @ElectricUfz have recently published a new study!
Discover the limits of #electrochemical #co2 reduction at biocompatible conditions and potential ways to overcome them ➡️ http://bit.ly/44cbdTd

@PanizIzadi @ElectricUfz giving an overview keynote talk on electrobiorefineries at #meepsymposium

Project Impact

Contributing to the transition to a low carbon economy and reach European climate targets

Negative to neutral CO2 emissions in the production of organic acids
-20% cost & energy demand for the production of organic acids compared to fossil-based industries

-25% cost for ammonia recovery from industrial wastewater

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Such organic acids are lactic acid (LA), succinic acid (SA), itaconic acid (IA) and 3-hydroxypropionic. Organic acids are important for the chemical industry as they are the building blocks for the production of chemicals including biobased products.

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Such organic acids are lactic acid (LA), succinic acid (SA), itaconic acid (IA) and 3-hydroxypropionic. Organic acids are important for the chemical industry as they are the building blocks for the production of chemicals including biobased products.

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Cost reduction of the recovery of ammonia (50 g N/m2/d) with a novel bioelectrochemical methodology.

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