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Insectes comestibles

14 June 2024

By: C. Planche

Open watch bulletin on insect-based bioconversion N°9

This issue covers scientific and industrial news on insect-based bioconversion from April 1 to May 31, 2024.

11 April 2024

By: Christelle Planche - PSM

Insect-based bioconversion newsletter N°8

This issue covers scientific and industrial news on insect-based bioconversion from February 1 to March 31, 2024.

11 April 2024

By: Christelle Planche - PSM

Insect-based bioconversion newsletter N°7

This issue covers scientific and industrial news on insect-based bioconversion from December 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024.

18 December 2023

By: Christelle Planche - PSM

Insect-based bioconversion newsletter N°6

This issue covers scientific and industrial news on insect-based bioconversion from October 1 to November 30, 2023.

06 November 2023

By: PSM

Insect-based bioconversion newsletter N°4

This issue covers scientific and industrial news on insect-based bioconversion from December 15, 2022 to March 31, 2023. Among the many recent articles, we would like to highlight the BSFCON conference and the article by Kee et al. (2023). Kee et al. (2023) carried out a literature review on the concept of insect biorefineries, which consists in using insects as a tool to convert waste into energy and other beneficial products. The authors highlight the many biotechnological products derived from insect biorefineries, such as biofertilizers, animal feeds, edible foods, biopolymers, bioenzymes and biodiesel.
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25 March 2024

By: PSM

FREGATE : Flexible, Resilient, EGalitarian and Adapted environmental biorefining systems for urban TErritories

Considering different needs of a territory, different functions expected from biorefining systems by local actors (stakeholders and interested parties) at the earliest design stage, taking into account the necessities for flexibility and modularity, develop the adaptation capacity of biorefining systems to potential (r)evolutions, and even their capacity to be transformed.

06 November 2023

By: PSM - Christelle Planche

Insect-based bioconversion newsletter N°5

This issue covers scientific and industrial news on insect-based bioconversion from April 1 to September 30, 2023. Among the many recent articles, we would like to highlight the publication of Manaa et al. (2024), which focuses on the key role played by the gut microbiota of insects used for biowaste recycling.

14 November 2023

By: Com

REUSEinCITIES : INRAE network for reusing wastewater treated reuse in cities

The management and reuse of urban wastewater must go beyond the treatment of water and recycling in an industrial context or use for irrigation on farms. If wastewater is to be incorporated into urban ecosystems, the entire small water cycle needs to be redesigned, from identifying all available resources in a territory to characterising all uses and their associated constraints to all the socio-technical systems that allow water to be treated, transported, stocked and (re)distributed.

21 May 2024

By: Com

RéBUS : Research network for sustainable urban biorefineries

Understand the interactions between the activities that produce, process, value and consume biomass in a systematic rather than sectoral way, and account for the dynamics of the water, energy and land resources that underpin these activities

21 May 2024

By: Com

PeriurbanWasteEng : Toward agricultural and food waste engineering in increasingly urban peri-urban areas: how to transform waste and for what uses?

Our consortium wishes to investigate the engineering of agricultural and food waste in a logic of circularity of flows on the scale of a large urban area, including the Saclay plateau and the plain of Versailles. We wish to explore the issue in an interdisciplinary manner, including 7 units from 4 INRAE divisions.
TEVALU

27 November 2023

By: Com

TEVALU : Urine recovery in territories

This project is designed to study urine recovery in territories via an innovative extraction process for use on farms, and examine how the implementation of such a structure would impact sanitation services.Separating and recovering urine at the source is of particular interest for increasing the circularity of nutrients, notably nitrogen and phosphorus since urine consists of 86% nitrogen and 60% phosphorus per person.

14 November 2023

By: COM

EDIFICE : Assessment of biorefineries to recover market gardening waste near Nantes

The goal of the EDIFICE project is to develop a method and tools to analyse “What if” scenarios that would help answer the following question: “If this biomass were treated in this type of biorefinery, how would it affect the territory’s sustainability?”

21 May 2024

By: PSM

CARIBOU: CirculARIty of the Bakery prOdUction

CARIBOU is an exploratory project that brings together skills in social sciences, humanities, environmental assessment and technology to help develop bread recovery sectors.

14 November 2023

By: PSM

FLY4WASTE : Assessing the risks and benefits of the entomoconversion of urban and peri-urban biowaste by the insect Hermetia illucens

Some insect species such as the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) can grow on a wide variety of organic substrates ranging from “noble” by-products (wheat bran) to waste such as pig slurry (Singh & Kumari, 2019). This capacity is now seen as an ecological way to recycle some biowaste.