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• Dr. Ir. Bert Groenendaal

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R&D project coordinator at SIOEN Industries R&D director at AT~SEA Technologies

Textiles for seaweed cultivation: From an European project to a sound business

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Societal challenges

Seaweed as biomass Renewable and sustainable energy Sustainable and biobased materials Agriculture -> seagriculture More food/feed and energy for strongly growing global population

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Global seaweed business

2014: > 25 Mio tons (ww) which corresponds to 7-8 Bio USD

• Majority is being cultivated
• Mainly reds and browns

75% used for food (nori, wakame, kombu, etc.) 13% for hydrocolloids (alginates, carrageenan, agar) 12% other applications (personal care, cosmetics, fertilizer, etc.)

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Trends

 Growing interest in seaweeds in Europe and Americas  Lack of seaweed farmers => need for industrialization of seaweed cultivation => Need for more sustainability

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Today’s agriculture

 Large scale agriculture  Industrial, fully mechanized food production  2D and 3D

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Today’s seaweed wild harvest

 Large scale wild seaweed harvesting  Industrial, fully mechanized  Heavy impact on the sea bed

Today’s seaweed farms

 Large scale seaweed cultivation  Manual and 1D

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Today’s seaweed cultivation

nori

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Our concept

Development of substrates based on advanced textiles to facilitate open sea cultivation of aquatic biomass (seaweed), having a high-potential as source for our future supply of food (additives), feed, biochemicals/biomaterials and biofuels/energy

Advanced textiles for open sea biomass cultivation (AT~SEA) (FP7 project 2012-2015)

1 ha seaweed field

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AT~SEA project

Work program: FP7-NMP-2011-SME-5 FP7 project number : 280860 Project period: April 2012 – July 2015 Participants:

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Highlights of the AT~SEA project

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 Development of advanced textile substrates:

• Materials/chemistries
• Textile structure
• Textile finishing/coating

 Testing and evaluation:

• Lab level
• Tank level
• At sea

Advanced textile substrates

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• Ireland
• Norway
• Scotland

Advanced textile substrates

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Study the cultivation of seaweed (Saccharina L.) on 11 different types of 1 m2 textile substrates

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5 10 15 TS1 TS2 TS3 TS4 TS5 TS6 TS7 TS8 TS9 TS10 TS11

Total wet weight (kg)

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• Deployment in October 2014 in IRE, SCO and NOR
• 10 pcs of 2 x 10 m substrates deployed per site Saccharina L
• Growth monitoring, manual harvesting, seaweed storage test, …

Demonstration phase

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Demonstration phase - IRE

May 25, 2015

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Demonstration phase - IRE

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Demonstration phase - NOR

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• Seaweed cultivation in Europe has huge potential for multiple applications

(IMTA, food and feed (additives), bioremediation, biochemicals/materials, etc.)

• The AT~SEA consortium has developed, patented (PCT) and demonstrated

advanced 2D textile substrates* that yield up to 3-5 times more biomass than state of the art 1D rope based systems

• Success of AT~SEA lies in the multidisciplinary of the project and the product
• project: chemists, materials scientists, textile engineers, biologists,

marine engineers, etc.

• product: much more than just a piece of textile => system

* Award winning technology:

• Nomination for Essenscia Innovation Award 2013
• TechTextil Innovation Award 2015
• Nomination for Scottish Aquaculture Award 2015

Project conclusions

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Founding of AT~SEA Technologies

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2012 – 2015: FP7 project AT~SEA coordinated by SIOEN Industries 2016: founding of AT~SEA Technologies, a dynamic, technological company selling turnkey seaweed farms all across the world. Keywords:  Multidisciplinarity team  Innovative  One stop shop

J2M

2D cultivation substrate

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AlgaeTex product portfolio

 Advanced textiles for seaweed cultivation (AlgaeTex)  Patent pending technology by SIOEN Industries

AlgaeRibbon AlgaeRope AlgaeNet AlgaeSheet

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AlgaeTex product portfolio

Up to 19 kg ww per meter

AlgaeNet

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AlgaeTex product portfolio

AlgaeRibbon

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ATSEA has deployed multiple small farms (up to 1 ha) in Europe and abroad ATSEA is currently moving its test farm/showroom from Norway to Spain (Lastres, Asturias); planned to be operational in October 2017 Short video of our test farm in Norway …

ATSEA Technologies at a glance

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Kenia

Tests with other seaweed species and at other locations

Indonesia Scotland Ireland

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Next steps

• Launch of biobased and biodegradable 1D and 2D cultivation substrates
• Launch of minifarms (up to 1 ha)
• Launch of mechanization tools for 1D and 2D seeding, cleaning and

harvesting

• Launch of full scale seaweed farms (32 ha or 64 ha) across the globe

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More info …

ATSEA Technologies TIO³ Oscar Delghuststraat, 60 9600 Ronse, Belgium bert.groenendaal@atsea-tech.com www.atsea-tech.com

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