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Project 4: Development of improved technologies to utilize industrial and agricultural waste for bio-energy and value-added chemical production
The project focuses on the establishment of
improved technologies to utilize industrial and
agricultural waste for bioenergy and value-added
chemical production. The project is expected to deliver
on improved process for biogas production and value
added chemicals from agro-industrial wastes (fish and
sisal) thereby contributing to environmental
sustainability.
Implementing Institutions
Implementation Status
The project has partially
achieved the results needed to realize the ultimate
outcome. Protocols for a lab scale bioreactor have been
developed. They have demonstrated improved biogas
production by about 70% for fish processing wastewater
and about 100% for sisal wastes.
The processes of isolation
and purification of proteases from Nile perch fish
wastes has been established. The project has also
contributed towards building the relevant capabilities
required to increase the quality of research. The
expected outcome will however be fully realized when the
improved processes are fully demonstration in
collaboration with the sisal and fish processing
factories and techno-economic analyses of the
technologies undertaken.
This project involves 17 scientists from University of Dar es Salaam, University of Nairobi, Makerere University and Lund University. The project is training 1 postdoctoral student, 2 PhDs and 5 MSC students. Background
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