AUFWIND Schlussbericht
AUFWIND (A lgenproduktion und U mwandlung in F lugzeugtreibstoffe: WI rtschaftlichkeit, N achhaltigkeit, D emonstration) was a German, governmental funded approach to investigate the feasibility of bio - jet fuel from algae. It originated in 2010, was finally granted in 2013 and then running until the end of 2016. Aim of AUFWIND was to go beyond the laboratory scale and test the "status quo" of microalgae cultivation and processing, on a scale to over 1500m², about two orders of magnitude larger. Therefore, a process chain from cultivation over processing to refining was built and established on this scale. Although a further commercial upscale of algae for fuel production seems unlikely in short-term not only in Germany -bottlenecks along the process chain have been identified and will be addressed in the next years. Additionally, the consortium is convinced that the topic will be revisited in the future due to technology advances. Also the increased interest in added-value process pathways from microalgae will contribute to facilitate their bio-energy viability in mid- to long term. Accordingly, our research results were collected and published in one document to serve as a public, solid foundation for future research: The attached report is structured in 2 parts. The first part (A – Projektübersicht: p. A-4 to p. A-20) gives an overlook, a summary and an outlook, sorted by topics (workpackages - Arbeitspaket): Administration (AP1), Cultivation (AP2), Extraction and cell disruption (AP3), Processing and refining of the extract (AP4), Utilization of side streams and remainders (AP5) and drawing of balances (AP6). In the second part (B – detaillierte Abschlussberichte), the results are structured by contributions of the individual partners (Teilvorhaben = TV). Each partner is involved in at least one work package; an overview is given on p. A-4 and p. A-5. AUFWIND (A lgenproduktion und U mwandlung in F lugzeugtreibstoffe: WI rtschaftlichkeit, N achhaltigkeit, D emonstration) war eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur ...