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The EU is currently suffering from a major deficit in protein production and is dependent on imports from third countries, creating an urgent need for technological breakthroughs to increase local protein production.
PLENITUDE leverages an innovative, circular bioprocess integrating the production of bioethanol and mycoprotein. The result is ABUNDA, an ingredient used to produce high quality foods and bio-based products that sets new standards for both sustainability and scalability
The CBE JU PLENITUDE flagship project is building (operational 2022) a bio based value chain based around the installation and operation of a unique, zero waste process that couples a unique aerobic fermentation plant that produces a food-grade protein with a conventional first-generation biorefinery. The inputs into the biorefinery are sustainable cereal crops. The PLENITUDE process takes a proportion of the input into the biorefinery as a side-stream to feed an aerobic fermentation process which converts it to mycoprotein, an established high quality protein used as a meat alternative.
Sustainable supply of low-cost substrate, high feed conversion ratio (yield), price of livestock meat which needs to be replaced
Based on substitution of mycoprotein to replace the consumption of protein from livestock, PLENITUDE will deliver reduced CO2 savings equivalent to ~5 tonnes less CO2 emissions for every tonne of mycoprotein consumed (~82% CO2 reduction compared to meat protein)
Safeguard and/or create a number of jobs. At the initial scale of production, this will be in the region of 200 jobs, as many as 4350 if the project achieves its longer-term goals.
Cereal farmers and horticultural farmers, technology developers, food and fuel end users
Wheat and other cereal crops
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Plentitude
Fermentation
Bioethanol, Mycoprotein (food grade protein)
Initial output capacity of 16k tonnes per annum
Netherland
2019
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