3-Routes Platform for recovery of high value products, energy and bio-fertilizer from urban biowaste: the REVENUE project

This innovative Biorefinery platform is based on the integration of a mild thermal pre-treatment and a solid/liquid separation unit to parallel-integrated bioprocesses specifically selected on food waste distinctive chemical composition: a liquid fraction rich in readily fermentable sugars to be transformed into valuable biobased products, and a solid organic residue to enhance biomethane production generating a fully hygienized digestate to be recycled. The preliminary results in terms of VFAs yields and composition from the acidogenic stage, and the methane conversion rate from the anaerobic digestion of the solid residue, are here presented. The Revenue Project (2020-2022) is financed by Fondazione Cariplo.