The growing population in the world leads to an increased request for meat, and thereby proteins for animal feed. A new technology enables protein production based on nitrogen from air and carbon and hydrogen from natural gas (or biogas). This PhD project investigates the implications of the new technology
This PhD study is part of a larger consortium “Environmentally Friendly Protein Production” (EFPro2) which will uncover the implications of a novel technology producing a protein product using land-free (i.e. non-crop based) substrates such as nitrogen from air and carbon and hydrogen from natural gas (or biogas). The objective of this PhD project is to perform advances in the LCA methodology in order to account for the consequences induced by a changed chemical composition of feed ingredients, targeting the specific amino acids affected. Furthermore, the environmental and socio-economic consequences of various protein supply strategies will be assessed, including the one based on the technology developed within the EFPro2 consortium. Read more
Expected to be finalised by December 2018
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Henrik Wenzel
Co-supervisor: Lorie Hamelin
Collaboration partners
The PhD study is part of a larger consortium “Environmentally Friendly Protein Production” (EFPro2)", funded by Innovation Fund Denmark. Partners in the project are:
- Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- UniBio A/S
- Vestjyllands Andel
- Aarhus Universitet
- University of Southern Denmark (SDU)