PROJECT

MICROPOWER VISION

The overall vision of MicroPower is to establish bioaugmentation, a process where specific microorganisms are added to a biological system to improve/recover specific functions, as an economical and user-friendly tool, in order to boost the bioenergy production in biogas plants utilizing currently unwanted biomasses such as lignocellulose- and ammonia-rich.

WP1

Project Management

WP2

Hydrolytic & Ammonia Tolerant Inocula

WP3

Long Term Preservation of Composite Inocula

WP4

Composite Inocula Bioaugmentation process Development

WP5

LIfe Cycle and Market Analysis

WP6

Dissemination and Communication Management

MAIN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES

identify and enrich 80%
novel long-term preservation method 80%
novel bioaugmentation platform 60%
life-cycle analysis (LCA) 60%

Meet the team

Ioannis A. Fotidis

Project Coordinator

Thomas A. Kotsopoulos

Project Partner

Christina Moulogianni

Postdoctoral Researcher

Thomas Bournaris

Project Partner

Dafang Fu

External Project Partner

Yixin Yan

External Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

Michalis Omirou

External Project Partner

Sotirios Vasileiadis

External Project Partner

Dimitra S. Pitsikoglou

PhD student

Antonios A. Lithourgidis

PhD Researcher

Maria-Athina Tsitsimpikou

PhD student

Sotirios Douklias

MSc Student

2,055

Completed projects

709,480

Lines of Code

159

Clients this year

4,102

Miles travelled

Consortium

Ionian University Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
SouthEast University China


This project is carried out within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Greece 2.0, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU (Implementation body: HFRI)