Ways2Taste: Integrating fungi into industrial processes · • Fungi that can: – Major product? Ethanol? – Consume pentoses and hexoses? – Produce hydrolytic enzymes? – Can

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www.scrr.seSwedish Centre for Resource Recovery

Ways2Taste:Integrating fungi into industrial

processes

Mohammad TaherzadehProject leader

Professor in bioprocess technologySwedish Centre for Resource Recovery (SCRR)

University of BoråsSweden



Resource Recovery in Nature?



Recycling in nature

Resources

Human activity

Wastes/CO2

Nature

Nature

Algae…

Fungi

Insects

Plants

Bacteria



Recycling in nature

Resources

Human activity

Wastes/CO2

Nature

Nature

Algae…

Fungi

Insects

Plants

Bacteria



Recycling in nature

Resources

Human activity

Wastes/CO2

Nature

Nature

Algae…

Fungi

Insects

Plants

Bacteria



Global emissions of CO2 (1751-2015)

Source: WRI



CO2 rises in the atmosphere!



… even industrial wastes….

Bagasse from sugarcane(~ 500 million tons/year)

Palm oil residuals(~ 50 millon tons/year)



Recycling in nature (our goal is to make faster recycling)

Resources

Human activity

Wastes/CO2

Nature

Nature

Algae…

Fungi

Insects

Plants

Bacteria



Fungi



Fungi (micro or macro)?



Fungi grow on solid or in liquid



Fungicultivation

Fumaric acidLactic acid

Ethanol

Amylases

CellulasesPectinasesProteasesSteroid 11 α-hydroxylasesPhytasesTannasesUreasesLipases

Lipids

Chitosan/chitinAnimal/Fish feed

Amino acids

Metabolites

Enzymes

BiomassHexosesPentosesMonomers

Sweet potato starchBarley

CornPure starchRice

Cassava

CorncobCassava pulpManure fibreCorn strawWoodCelluloseChitinXylanWheat strawCellulose

Orange peel Citrus pectinRice bran

Wheat bran

Raw Materials Hydrolysis

Cranberry pomace

Cotton residuesHazelnut shellsRice branCoconut oil cakeSesame oil cake

Pectin

LactoseSucrose

Capabilites of the fungi

Immobilizingmicroorganisms

Other products

Pigments

Human food

Starch wastewater



Fungicultivation

Lactic acid

Ethanol

Amylases

CellulasesPectinases

Lipids

Chitosan/chitinAnimal/Fish feed

Metabolites

Enzymes

BiomassHexosesPentosesMonomers

Pure starch

WoodCelluloseXylan

Wheat strawOrange peel Citrus pectin

Wheat bran

Raw Materials Hydrolysis

Cotton residues

Pectin

LactoseSucrose

Our works with fungi since 1999

Immobilizingyeast

Other products

Pigments

Human food

Starch wastewater

Proteases

Phytases

Lipases



Can we use fungi to stimulate circular economy and convert our residuals to value-added

products?



Can fungi help in developing biorefinery from ethanol plants?

Fungi bioreactors

Ethanol

Fungal biomass(for feed or food)Lignocelluloses

Fermentable clean residuals(protein, starch, sugars, etc.in e.g. thin stillage)

PretreatmentsPigments

Biopolymers

Other products



Major research and development questions?

• Fungi that can:– Major product? Ethanol?– Consume pentoses and hexoses?– Produce hydrolytic enzymes?– Can grow on different residuals streams?

• Straw, bran, saw dust, stillage, starch, crème, milk,…

• Being edible:– Fungal biomass as feed or food?

• Morphology• Pretreatment of materials before fungi?



What is Ways2Taste• Collaborative project• Developing innovations in the region• Smart and sustainable growth• Biotechnology use of edible filamentous

fungus• Period: Sep. 2018 until Dec. 2021



Tofu Tempe

Rhizopus

Red Rice Oncom

Monascus Neurospora

FusariumBelong to Zygomycetes

Belong to AscomycetesEdibleSafe

Aspergillus

Miso

Special focus on edible fungi

Quorn



Fungal biorefiery

Fungi biorefineries

Ethanol

Fungal biomass(for feed or food)Lignocelluloses

& wastes

Fermentable clean residuals(protein, starch, sugars, etc.in e.g. thin stillage)

PretreatmentsPigments

Other products



Fungal biorefiery

Fungi biorefineries

Ethanol

Fungal biomass(for feed or food)

Residuals from:AgricultureBeer Ice creamFisheryBreadMunicipal food wastes……..

Pigments

Other products



Fungal biorefiery

Fungi biorefineries

EthanolFood Feed




Fungal biorefiery

Fungi biorefineries:

Small& Large

EthanolFood Feed




Projekt partners• Collaborating partners:

– Högskolan i Borås– Chalmers– Innovatum

• Funding:– EU Regional fund (Via Tillväxtverket)– Högskolan i Borås– Lantmännen – FOV– Steinbrenner & Nyberg– Raw Food i Borås

• Target groups:– Companies as the primary target group– Other companies as a secondary target group



Welcome to the first workshop of Ways2Taste



Thank you!

Documents

Ways2Taste: Integrating fungi into industrial processes · • Fungi that can: – Major product? Ethanol? – Consume pentoses and hexoses? – Produce hydrolytic enzymes? – Can