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AlgoSolis, a R&D facility dedicated to the development of sustainable microalgae industry

Microalgae appears nowadays as a bioresource of great interest. Their applications in nutrition, cosmetic and health-care are numerous and contribute to the growth of these markets, but their exploitation in the areas of energy, waste/CO2 valorisation, and green chemistry are also extremely promising for the future.

To meet the needs of industry and create the future industrial solutions, the GEPEA Laboratory (Joint Research Unit of the University of Nantes, CNRS, Oniris, EMN) developed the AlgoSolis R & D Facilty, belonging to the University of Nantes.

AlgoSolis provides scientific and technological environment for developing optimized strains, processes and methods for the industrial applications requesting mass-scale, controlled and efficient production of microalgae. In addition to the infrastructure and equipments provided by AlgoSolis, this facility appears as an accelerator of the entire microalgae industry. It allows different actors to develop research and innovation projects in the field of blue biotechnology and bioenergy: in other words, conduct R&D at the cutting edge of what is now an international competition-field.

Breakthrough technologies for microalgae culture and for algorefinery

AlgoSolis develop and optimize new technologies for microalgal biomass production and biorefining, , and optimizes their operation in real-world operating conditions. With more than 20 independent production lines, the infrastructure of AlgoSolis allows the individual development of units to validate and optimize their performance, or the study their integration into an overall process from the production of biomass to the extraction of molecules of interest. In addition to the state-of-the-art technologies, AlgoSolis incorporates the latest innovations in the field, thanks to the work of GEPEA and its partners. This includes several breakthrough processes like intensified photobioreactors and wet-biomass biorefining, strains of industrial interest, optimizes procedures for culture media recycling and microalgae culture on industrial effluents.

Linking the research and industrial sectors

AlgoSolis is first and foremost a collaborative research tool available to partners that contribute to the development of technologies related to the use of microalgae, both SME wishing to provide new technology solutions to microalgae market, academic working in the improvement of knowledge in the microalgae research field, or end-users interested in the potential of this bioresource for future applications.

A tool for international collaborative networks

AlgoSolis forms the "link" between the worlds of research and industry. AlgoSolis benefits over 25 years of research for today propose a set of solutions and scientific expertise to the development of a new competitive and sustainable industry. AlgoSolis meets the various academic and industrial issues through an original tool, attractive, flexible and open to partnerships.

Pays de la Loire, a region of excellence for the development of microalgae industry

The West of France concentrated the academic and industrial expertise in microalgae-field, representing about half of the national skills in blue biotechnologies. AlgoSolis is one of the pillars of this sector of excellence at the heart of competitive clusters “Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique” and “VALORIAL”. Located on the Nantes / Saint-Nazaire metropolis, AlgoSolis is integrated in a large collaborative ecosystem with players in education, research (University Bretagne Loire – UBL, CNRS) and industries.

The goal: to boost economic development and prepare innovation strategies that will make the jobs of tomorrow.