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Rica Nidelven Hotel, Trondheim, 25-26 September 2012
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PROGRAM
DAY 1: 25th September 2012
11:00
Registration
11:30
Lunch
Rica Nidelven
Hotel
12:15
Welcome
Welcome
Karl Almås, SINTEF Fisheries and aquaculture
Ole Jørgen Marvik, Innovation Norway
12:25
Session 1: Bioenergy in a sustainable way, chair: Tim Attack, Viking Fish Farm Ltd
12:30
Climate Change: The case for marine energy in Europe and the Crown Estate's response in the UK
Mike Cowling & Alex Adrian, The Crown Estate
13:00
Seaweed for Biofuels: Future perspectives from industry
Lars Ystanes, Statoil
13:30
The Regulatory Environment for Seaweed Exploitation in the UK and Norway
Tim Atack, Viking Fish Farm Ltd
13:50
The High Value Chemical competition
Michelle Carter, Biosciences KTN
14:00
Coffee/refreshments
Session 2: Cultivation of Seaweed biomass, chair: Kjell Inge Reitan,
NTNU
14:30
Biomass production by seaweed: Cultivation technology potential and challenges
Klaus Lüning, Sylter Algenfarm
15:00
Seaweed Cultivation Strategies in Norway
Aleksander Handå, SINTEF
Session 3: Conversion of Seaweed biomass, Chair: Inga Marie Aasen, SINTEF
15:30
Conversion to biofuels: potentials & challenges
Bernt Wittgens, SINTEF, Materials and Chemistry
16:00
Biogas production
Kjetill Østgaard, NTNU, Dep. of Biotechnology
16:30
Coffee/refreshments
17:00
Biochemical conversion: Liquid fuel
Michele Stanley, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, UK
17:30
Thermochemical conversion
Berta Guell Matas, SINTEF, Energy Research
18:00
Biorefinery of seaweed
Herman Den Uil, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
18:30
Biorefinery systems and LCA
Francesco Cherubini, NTNU
19:00
Closing Remarks
19:30
Dinner - The Seafood buffet at Rica Nidelven Hotel
PROGRAM
DAY 2: 26th September 2012
Session 4: The seaweed industry - actors from industry and research
09:00
Welcome
Chair: Trine Galloway, SINTEF, Fisheries and Aquaculture
09:05
Seedling production in Europe – From laboratory to industrial scale
Tim Atack, Viking Fish Farm Ltd
09:20
From concept to industrialisation of seaweed for biofuel
Andreas Putz, Seaweed Energy Solutions
09:35
Industrial utilisation of seaweed in Norway
Olav Gåserød, FMC Biopolymer
09:50
CPI’s activities related to seaweed
Jerry Cooper, Centre for Process Innovation
10:05
Results from field studies with cultivation of Saccarina latissima in Troms
Thor Arne Hangstad, Akvaplan-niva
10:20
SeaCult and Seacultivation
Sverre Meisingset, SeaCult
10:35
Sori disinfection in cultivation of Saccharina latissima (MSc-thesis, 2012)
Kaia Kjølbo Rød, Seaweed Energy Solutions
10:50
Discussion
11:00
Excursion to Norwegian Seaweed Technology Centre
12:30
Workshop close
13:00
Lunch
Seaweed for Biofuel - Opportunities & the way forward
PROFILES
ABSTRACT
Professor Mike Cowling
Climate: the case for marine bioenergy in
Europe and The Crown Estate’s response in the
UK’
The Crown Estate
Chief Scientist at The Crown Estate with
responsibility for providing scientific advice
across the 9 marine business sectors. Also
currently leading the marine biomass sector in
its feasibility stage
Dr Alex Adrian
The Crown Estate
Aquaculture Operations Manager at The Crown
Estate, responsible for administration and
development of fish farming and marine
cultivation business on the marine estate
The presentation will outline the role for
bioenergy in the future response to the need to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the
contribution that marine macro-algae might
make to that need in the UK. Initial results from
a number of enabling / facilitating studies will
be presented. This will be followed by an
outline of initial plans to trial several growing
systems suitable for large scale development of
this marine industry. The presentation will
conclude with suggestions of future priorities
and next steps.”
PROFIL
ABSTRACT
Lars Ystanes
Seaweed to biofuels – future perspectives by
industry actor
Specialist Environmental and Climate
HSEC EIT Environment Technology
Statoil
Master of science, fisheries biology. Background
from ecotoxicology and oil field chemicals.
Current position as specialist in environmental
and climate related issues in Statoil.
In addition to be a provider of fossil energy,
Statoil engage in the renewable energy area
and aims to develop and support new sources
of energy, including biofuel. Biofuel can be both
first generation where biomass is are harvested
and processed into ethanol or biodiesel, and
second generation where non-food biomass
such as waste like straw or wood chips are used
as feedstock. Seaweed is a resource known for
centuries and contains substantial amount of
carbohydrates. However, it is still a challenge to
convert sugars from seaweed to ethanol. While
traditional farming onshore in Norway is on the
border of what’s agricultural possible,
aquaculture has optimal conditions. Macro
algae benefit from seasonal variations in
nutrient and sunlight. Both along the coast as
well as offshore, the potential for cultivating sea
weed is promising. Even if the sugar kelp is rich
in hydrocarbons, the sugars are not readily
available. Statoil has teamed up with a US based
biotech company, Bio Architecture Lab, a
company developing technology for converting
the complex sugars in seaweed into ethanol. To
ensure cost efficient supply of biomass, a
collaboration with Seaweed Energy Solutions AS
has been established where the aim is to
develop a concept for seaweed cultivation,
from production of seedlings to deployment,
cultivation and harvesting of sea weed. The
value chain starts with germ production and
ends with bioethanol for the marked. In
between this, the challenges are to produce
juvenile kelp that can efficiently grow in rigs,
the rigs have to be efficiently harvested, the
logistic of harvested kelp must be solved and
suitable fermentation process has to be
identified. Statoil sees a significant potential for
production of ethanol from seaweed but due to
the high risks involved, the project will be
developed stepwise at Statoil’s discretion from
the pilot phase through demo phase to the
commercial
phase.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Dr Tim Atack
The Regulatory Environment for Seaweed
Exploitation in the UK and Norway
Viking Fish Farm Ltd
Dr. Atack is Managing Director and co-owner of
Viking Fish Farms Ltd, Ardtoe Marine
Laboratory. He has been involved in commercial
aquaculture R&D, and in the production of a
wide variety of marine and freshwater finfish
and crustacea, since 1972. In 1984 he designed
and managed one of the first commercial sea
bream hatcheries to be set up in the
Mediterranean, and has since managed marine
fish hatcheries and cage grow-out farms in
Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and Scotland, as well as
undertaking aquaculture consultancy work
worldwide. He presently manages all the
commercial hatchery production activities at
Ardtoe, including marine finfish, shellfish and
seaweeds. He also coordinates the company's
input into a wide selection of R&D projects,
including the EU projects H2Ocean, IDREEM,
ProSpawn, CleanHatch, eFishent, Larvanet and
Netalgae as well as various UK funded projects
and commercial research contracts. He is also a
member of the small team commissioned by
the UK Crown Estate to design, develop and
operate the UK's first pilot scale commercial
seaweed farming operation, for which Ardtoe
will also be supplying the seeded grow-out
media.
After the collapse of the alginate industry in the
UK in the 1980s, wild seaweed harvesting
became very much an artisanal industry which
more or less escaped the attention of the
regulators. However, the recent renewed
interest in both the wild harvesting and culture
of seaweeds has prompted the regulatory
authorities to reconsider how the industry may
be regulated. Meanwhile, for the most part,
the wild harvest industry is currently regulated
through implementation of general UK and EU
legislation
covering
such
areas
as
environmental and food protection. Similarly,
seaweed culture falls outside the scope of
present
aquaculture
legislation,
which
specifically states that it applies only to fish and
shellfish farming. However, the need to obtain a
Marine Licence for any marine installation in
the UK is being used effectively as a way of
regulating seaweed culture.
In Norway, where the harvesting of wild
seaweeds is a bigger and more well established
industry, the methods by which it is regulated
are more well defined, though again such
regulation is mostly based around various
environmental protection Acts but, unlike the
situation in the UK, the licencing system does
give regulators the opportunity to implement,
and police, their clearly defined guidelines
governing the sustainable exploitation of the
resource. Meanwhile, as in the UK, the
authorities have yet to establish regulations
specifically covering seaweed aquaculture, so
regulation is again effected through general
marine licencing legislation. However, in the
future, seaweed aquaculture is likely to be
controlled by local government through the use
of regulations governing the culture of aquatic
species "other than salmon and trout".
Undoubtedly, as has been seen in finfish
aquaculture, if interest in seaweed exploitation
continues to grow in the coming years, the
means by which it is regulated, both in Norway
and the UK, will also grow.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Dr. Michelle Carter
High Value Chemical 4 competition
Biosciences KTN
Michelle is a knowledge transfer manager at B
KTN. Her role is to promote industrial
biotechnology (IB) as an enabling technology
towards more sustainable products and
processes which can ultimately lead to a
reduction in our dependency on fossil fuels.
Michelle has a background in marine biology,
obtaining her BSc and MRes at the University of
Plymouth, UK and her PhD at Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand.
Biosciences KTN is a knowledge transfer
network based at the Roslin Institute,
Edinburgh. Our aim is to drive the conversion of
the UK's bioscience knowledge into innovative
agricultural, food and industrial bioscience
products and processes. We put companies and
innovators in contact with the knowledge and
funding that they need to bring new products
and processes to market.
PROFIL
ABSTRACT
Dr Klaus Luning
Biomass production by seaweed: Cultivation
technology, potential and challenges
Sylter Algenfarm GmbH & CoKG
In 2006 he founded the commercial seaweed
growing company Sylter Algenfarm GmbH &
Co.KG at Sylt island.
Since 2006: Growing seaweeds in outdoor tanks
for human consumption and cosmetics industry
at Sylt.
2008-2010 Start of Laminaria cultivation (on
land and in the sea) in Danish waters (Kattegat)
in cooperation with Danish blue mussel
cultivating company Marifood ApS (Aarhus;
Rasmus Bjerregaard).
2008-2009: Participating as seaweed specialist
in a project by KALI + SALZ GmbH with testing
seaweed growth in deposited fossil salt
residues, and in EU project SUDEBVAB on
abalone cultivation in Europe.
---2010-2012: Cooperating with SINTEF
(Trondheim) on Saccharina mass cultivation
project MACROBIOMASS for bioethanol
production.
---Since 2011: Cooperating with Blue Planet
(Stavanger) on Saccharina mass cultivation
project (on land and in the sea) in the Lysefjord.
One of the fastest-growing kelp species in
European waters is Saccharina latissima (=
Laminaria saccharina).This kelp species was,
hence, the major alga tested in the Norwegian
research project MacroBiomass establishing
fundamental
knowledge
for
optimum
cultivation of kelp biomass to be used for
biofuel production. The coast of Norway, with
summer temperatures often below 15°C,
appears as an ideal cold-water region for
natural occurrence and artificial mass
cultivation of kelp species. A major bottle-neck
for mass cultivation of kelp biomass in the sea is
the cultivation of juvenile sporophytes on ropes
via gametophytes, with natural formation of
sporangia (sorus) restricted in S. latissima to a
few months in late autumn/early winter.
Artificially induced year-round formation of
sporangia was tested and obtained in the
course of the MacroBiomass project using the
known short-day photoperiodic response of S.
latissima for induction of sporangia. Successful
sorus formation was obtained in induction
experiments performed in consecutive months
in kelp hatcheries at Trondheim, Grenaa
(Kattegat sea area) and on Sylt island (North
Sea). Another and future challenge for kelp
mass cultivation in European waters is to try to
avoid the heavy loss of cultivated kelp biomass
in the sea due to intensive animal fouling on the
kelp during late spring and early summer.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Aleksander Handå
Seaweed cultivation in Norway
SINTEF,
Fisheries and Aquaculture,
Norwegian Seaweed Technology Centre
Aleksander Handå is Research manager for the
research group Applied Ecology at SINTEF
Fisheries and Aquaculture, which has its
expertise in Macroalgae cultivation, Integrated
multi-trophic aquaculture and Harmful algae
blooms. Aleksander has a PhD in Integrated
aquaculture with salmon, mussels and seaweed
and he has experience with research and
technology development for large scale artificial
upwelling to stimulate cultivation conditions for
mussels and seaweed in Norwegian fjords as
well as from multiple cultivation experiments
with mussels and seaweed in Norwegian coastal
areas.
The interest to develop an industrialized
cultivation of seaweed in Norway is growing
rapidly. A year-through production of small
plants on ropes of the sugar kelp Saccharina
latissima has been demonstrated in land-based
facilities and attention is now directed towards
cultivation in the sea. Combining the seasonality
of seaweeds with cultivation in high productive
areas as part of a cultivation strategy suggests a
significant potential for large scale cultivation of
seaweeds for biofuel in Norway.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Bernd Wittgens
Conversion of seaweed to biofuel: Potential
and challenges
SINTEF
Materials and Chemistry,
Refining of aquatic biomass to fuels can be
achieved by applying existing generic chemical
technology. When using seaweed as feedstock
the production and pretreatment is simpler than
for lignocellulosic feedstocks. However, as
seaweed has high water content and at least one
third of the carbohydrates are not easily
converted to the desired fuel products, the
production faces difficulties in obtaining high
yields while keeping the energy consumption of
separation low. This talk will focus on the
challenges in carbohydrate conversion, discuss
product alternatives and look into technology
options for product recovery.
Process Technology
Senior Adviser at SINTEF
Chemistry since 2011
Materials and
Bernd Wittgens main field of competence:
 Project and Innovation management
 Biofuel production: mass and energy balance
and optimization
 Techno Economic Evaluation of chemical
processes
 Design, engineering, optimization and
operation of chemical process plants,
separation systems, waste incineration,
combustion technology and flue gas cleaning
plants
 Energy efficiency
 Measurement and instrumentation for
emission monitoring applied to flue gas
cleaning systems
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Kjetill Østgaard
Biogas production
NTNU
Dep of Biotechnology
Kjetill Østgaard is currently professor in
Environmental
Biotechnology
at
the
Department of Biotechnology, NTNU. He has his
background in biophysics, biochemistry and
microbiology. Previous research include
development and application of models systems
for biological studies, from molecular level to
that of microbial communities, with key words
cell culture systems, gel technology, biopolymer
research, measuring physics, and mathematical
modeling.
Research
in
environmental
biotechnology has been related to oil pollution,
to biodegradation of marine biomass
(seaweeds) including biogas and biofuel
production, to biological wastewater treatment
including N and P removal, and to biofilm
formation and biofouling. He has also
developed exobiology to a regular university
course. He is now working 50 %.
Going back to basics, the introduction will focus
on revisiting terms such as bioenergy, biogas
(LBG and CBG) and the biorefinery concept. The
biochemistry and microbial ecology of total
anaerobic fermentation in open systems are
then presented in some detail, particularly the
importance of the VFA (“volatile fatty acids”)
intermediates and the syntrophic consortia
involved in interspecies hydrogen transfer. This
is needed to explain the key factors of process
operation in general. Utilization of brown algae
is finally discussed in relation to their structural
composition, focusing on our own previous
studies of their biodegradation in relation to
biogas and bioethanol production.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Michele Stanley
Biochemical Conversion: Liquid Fuel.
SAMS, Scottish Marine Institute,
Oban UK
Michele Stanley has over 18 years research
experience in the area of biochemistry and
molecular biology. She has worked on applied
phycology projects for more than 15 years. Over
the last 4 years, she has initiated and led the
development of research investigating marine
biomass, both macro- and microalgal, as forms
of biofuels at SAMS. She leads the
multidisciplinary Interreg IVA funded project
BioMara: Sustainable Fuels from Marine
Biomass www.biomara.org. She is Director of
the
Natural
Environment
Research
Council/Technology Strategy Board Algal
Bioenergy Special Interest Group within the UK.
The area of producing biofuels from algal
biomass is still surrounded in a great deal of
hype and whilst there is evidence that largescale biofuels production from algae is
technically possible, further investigation is
needed to find out which strains are likely to be
the most productive and the optimal conditions
for their growth before it can be produced on a
commercial scale and brought to market. The
large brown macroalgae, or kelp, are perhaps
the greatest potential source of marine
biofuel. Immersed in seawater, these fast
growing macroalgae have no need for internal
transport systems for nutrients and water,
which saves energy, hence they are naturally
highly productive and have a high potential to
fix carbon. During this presentation some of the
pros and cons of using algal biomass as a means
of producing fuel from the sea will be presented
in terms of conversion of the biomass to either
ethanol or biogas.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Berta Guell Matas
Hydrothermal gasification of seaweed; a
promising technology to biofuels production.
SINTEF
Energy Research
Berta Matas Güell studied chemistry at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona during the
period 2000-2004. Afterwards she moved to
The Netherlands where she conducted her
Masters and PhD within bioenergy and
heterogeneous catalysis, particularly in the
catalytic production of hydrogen from pyrolysis
oil (2005-2009). In 2010 Berta started her
professional career at SINTEF Energy Research
and since 2011 she is the Research Manager of
the Biofuels group at SINTEF Energy Research
which focuses on thermochemical conversion
processes
Biofuels from terrestrial biomass have the
potential to meet about 25-30 % of the fuel
need in the future but this will imply serious
sustainability and cost issues and therefore
alternative biomass feedstocks are needed.
Norway has a cold climate and hence, biomass
grows slower than tropical biomass.
Macroalgae, however, has a huge potential in
Norway, being considered as the Norwegian
opportunity to cover biofuels need.
The hydrothermal gasification process utilizes
the special properties of near- and supercritical
water. At these conditions water can act as
solvent, reactant, and even catalyst or catalyst
precursor. While many biomass materials (e.g.
lignin, cellulose) are not water soluble at
ambient conditions most are readily dissolved
in near- and supercritical water.
A distinct advantage of hydrothermal
gasification is the possibility to convert wet
biomass with a natural water content of more
than 80% (g/g) with no need for drying. In
addition, high solubility of the intermediates in
the reaction medium inhibits tar and coke
formation significantly. This leads to high gas
yields at relatively low temperatures. These
aspects and additional advantages/challenges
will be discussed during the presentation.
PROFIL
ABSTRACT
Herman Den Uil
Biorefinery of seaweed
Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands,
ECN
Herman den Uil became a Bachelor of Science
in Chemical Engineering at the College of
Hilversum in 1986. In 1995 he became a Master
of Science in Chemistry at the Department of
Chemical Engineering of the University of
Amsterdam. Since 1986 he has worked at the
Energy research Centre of the Netherlands
(ECN) on the development of molten carbonate
fuel cells and on high temperature gas cleanup
for coal gasification. Since 1996 he is works in
the field of biomass research. He has a broad
experience in technical, environmental and
economic assessments of biomass conversion
systems. His current position is manager of the
group Transportation fuels and Chemicals.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Francesco Cherubini
NTNU
Dep of Energy and Process Engineering
Biorefinery systems and LCA
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Dr Tim Atack
Viking Fish Farm Ltd
Seedling Production in Europe - From
Laboratory to Industrial Scale
Dr. Atack is Managing Director and co-owner of
Viking Fish Farms Ltd, Ardtoe Marine
Laboratory. He has been involved in commercial
aquaculture R&D, and in the production of a
wide variety of marine and freshwater finfish
and crustacea, since 1972. In 1984 he designed
and managed one of the first commercial sea
bream hatcheries to be set up in the
Mediterranean, and has since managed marine
fish hatcheries and cage grow-out farms in
Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and Scotland, as well as
undertaking aquaculture consultancy work
worldwide. He presently manages all the
commercial hatchery production activities at
Ardtoe, including marine finfish, shellfish and
seaweeds. He also coordinates the company's
input into a wide selection of R&D projects,
including the EU projects H2Ocean, IDREEM,
ProSpawn, CleanHatch, eFishent, Larvanet and
Netalgae as well as various UK funded projects
and commercial research contracts. He is also a
member of the small team commissioned by
the UK Crown Estate to design, develop and
operate the UK's first pilot scale commercial
seaweed farming operation, for which Ardtoe
will also be supplying the seeded grow-out
media.
At the present time the hatchery production of
seaweed seedlings in Europe is, for the most
part, carried out only at a laboratory scale.
Many of the hatchery techniques presently
used to produce seedlings at this level are,
however, clearly not scaleable to the level
needed to meet the seedling requirements of
any large scale grow-out industry. Added to
that, the economics of growing seaweeds for
biofuels indicate that seaweed hatcheries will
have to produce the seedlings at a very low cost
in order for both the seaweed hatchery and
grow-out industries to be economically viable.
This presentation thus outlines some current UK
trials on larger scale seedling production
protocols using various grow-out substrates
which may enable the development of
economically viable seaweed farming for
biofuel industry in the UK.
PROFILE
Anders Putz
Seaweed Energy Solutions
Andreas Pütz has an MBA from the University of
Giessen, Germany.
He has worked as a director in IKEA Germany and as
CEO of 3 Norwegian companies; Overhalla Industrier
AS, Heimdal Sag Gruppen AS and Norwegian PX AS in
Brussels.
Before joining SES, Pütz worked as a manager for
business development at Leif Eriksson Nyskapning
AS, a business incubator and investor for start-ups in
Trondheim, Norway.
His specialties include international innovation
processes, marketing and management. He is also a
frequent guest lecturer at HIST (Trondheim) and
USBC (University of Santa Barbara California)
ABSTRACT
From concept to industrialization of seaweed
for biofuel Seaweed Energy Solutions AS (“SES” or
“the Company”) has operations in both Norway and
Portugal – the northern and southern extremes of
the large seaweed habitats in Europe. The Company
is focused on the development of large-scale
cultivation of seaweed and conversion of this
biomass into energy.
Right timing: The timing for the introduction of
seaweed as a source of energy could not be better.
The worldwide supply of oil has peaked which has
resulted in a strong demand for renewable transport
fuel and strict governmental targets are set to meet
the need. The potential for cultivated seaweed as an
energy crop has been evaluated starting with the
Marine Biomass program (USA) in the seventies and
more recently with numerous feasibility studies in
Europe, Japan and elsewhere. We know seaweed
grows faster than any terrestrial plant, large areas
are available (the ocean), large scale traditional style
farming of seaweed is proven (millions of tons) and
basic conversion to biogas and ethanol has been
tested with reasonable yields. We also know that
there is no conflict with food supplies, land use
changes and demand for fresh water. All together –
fuelled with the recent advances in parallel
industries such as aquaculture, marine offshore and
subsea technology and bioenergy processing
technologies – it is our belief that seaweed has a
great potential as biomass for energy purposes in
coastal regions around the world.
Added positive environmental effects: In addition to
providing a renewable fuel solution with minimal
conflicting issues, seaweed cultivation is believed to
have several other positive effects on the
environment such as enhanced biodiversity
(increased oxygen level in the sea), bio filter abilities
(absorption of pollutants) and CO2 fixation. Recently
several initiatives have been taken to start seaweed
cultivation in regions with intensive fish farming. For
example, in Norway the salmon industry releases
about 41.000 tons of nitrogen in the sea per year. A
cultivation volume of 9 million tons seaweed could
be justified just to absorb that nitrogen.
Bioconversion of seaweed: To grow, seaweed needs
sunlight and nutrients. The photosynthesis converts
this solar energy to chemical energy, which can be
utilized to produce energy carriers such as biogas,
ethanol, butanol and other petrochemical
replacements. SES is currently running several
projects to develop more efficient conversion
processes for both biogas and ethanol.
Potential: Growing seaweed in farms covering an
area of just less than 0.05 percent of Europe’s
coastal regions would yield a yearly production of 75
million tons of seaweed. This biomass could be
converted into an estimated 3.2 billion liters of
bioethanol, which would represent about 4.7
percent of the global ethanol production in 2008.
Alternatively it could be converted to 1,500 million
cubic meters of bio methane, which is equivalent to
an energy content of about 20 TWh.
To handle a future big demand of energy SES has
developed a patented seaweed carrier and is
working on a breeding program for industrialization
of seaweed.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Olav Gåserød
FMC Biopolymer
Industrial utilization of seaweed in Norway
The utilization of seaweed has a long tradition
in Norway. The harvesting of seaweed for
commercial production of alginate has taken
place in a sustainable manner for almost 50
years.
Alginates
find
applications
in
pharmaceutical,
food
and
industrial
applications. The latter two markets are
maturing and see little growth, whereas the
pharmaceutical market and new applications
show more promise. FMC Biopolymer has a
continued focus expanding the alginate
applications and in utilizing other components
in the seaweed.
Olav Gåserød has a Ph.D in Biotechnology from
NTNU and a background in biopolymer
chemistry. For the last 14 years he has worked
as a scientist and team leader in FMC
Biopolymer R&D with focus on developing new
alginate applications, new technologies and to
some extent process improvements.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Jerry Cooper
Centre for Process Innovation
Wilton, UK
CPI’s activities related to seaweeds
Jerry joined CPI in 2006 as operations manager
for the National Industrial Biotechnology
Facility. He established operations in the newly
built facility, recruiting an experienced
Development Team and managing facility
operations and process development projects.
More recently, Jerry was project manager for
the expansion of the National Industrial
Biotechnology Facility which created the larger
scale demonstration facility for production of
biofuels and chemicals from biomass
feedstocks.
At the Centre for Process Innovation, Jerry
manages a diverse range of projects working
with both commercial and collaborative R&D
(CRD) partners. His experience with CRD
projects encompass both UK and European
consortia and covers a wide range of
sustainable processing technologies from algae
culture to anaerobic digestion and production
of bio-derived chemicals such as biosurfactants
and biopolymers. Jerry manages CPI’s R&D and
IP portfolio for sustainable processing
technologies which includes collaborations with
universities through PhD studentships and TSB
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Thor Arne Tangstad
Akvaplan-niva
Results from field studies with cultivation of
Saccarina latissima in Troms.
Employed in Akvaplan-niva (APN) since 2010.
Since 2011 Department Manager Aquaculture
in APN. Before starting APN I have had 15 years'
experience with production of marine fish
juveniles, last four years as general manager of
cod hatchery
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Sverre Meisingset
SeaCult
Results from field studies with cultivation of
Saccarina latissima in Tromsø
SeaCult has developed and offer products that
protect
ocean
installations
and
the
environment.
Destruction of habitat and nursery is increasing.
This has led to focus on off-shore windmill parks
and other installations. SeaCult Offshore
Protection can help create up to 1000 m3 per
windmill foundation.
Professional training in agriculture marketing,
business and management.
Work Background Gilde as a consultant to
farmers and NLH Ås as a supervisor on research
projects. Then marketing marine oriented
projects and as a leader in recycling.
In 2000 came the idea to develop a concept to
cultivate the sea that has become the company
SeaCult AS.
Has 15 years’ experience in local politics. Is
known as a creative, community-oriented and
practical approach to the major environmental
challenges facing society
Increasingly, destroyed areas must be
regenerated through compensating actions.
SeaCult habitat is designed to do just that.
SeaCult wishes to contribute with this knowhow to reduce the lack of knowledge about
what happens under water and on the seabed
by participating in the research and developing
projects.
PROFILE
ABSTRACT
Kaia Kjølbo Rød
Seaweed Energy Solution
Sori disinfection in cultivation of Saccharina
latissima; evaluation of chemical treatments
against diatom contamination
Kaia Kjølbo Rød works as a marine biologist for
Seaweed Energy Solutions. She has a master
degree in Marine Coastal Development from
NTNU with focus on aquaculture. Her master
thesis was part of a SINTEF project on seaweed
cultivation and aimed to develop a method for
sori disinfection suitable for large-scale
seaweed production. At Seaweed Energy
Solutions she is working with gametophytes of
S. latissima and is at present starting a breeding
program for strain selection.
Diatom contamination is a problem in the early
cultivation stages of Saccharina latissima.
Macro- and microalgae compete for the same
abiotic resources, and diatoms may overgrow
and eliminate seedlings of S. latissima if
introduced to the cultivation system. This work
aimed to develop a purely chemical disinfection
method for S. latissima sori to mitigate
epiphytic diatoms prior to spore release. Five
chemicals, including 130 different trials, were
tested on diatoms in free suspension, and out
of these 25 were tried as sori disinfectants.
Several qualitative and quantitative parameters
indicated that 600ppm sodium hypochlorite or
2% Lugol’s solution can be used to mitigate
diatom contamination from S. latissima sori.
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