Partners
The COCPIT consortium includes 11 partners from 6 different EU countries, whose activities cover the whole production of sustainable fuels from microalgae, as well as the sustainable fuels pre-screening and the scenario development.
An end-user advisory board provides COCPIT with recommendations reflecting the industrial challenges in their respective sectors.
Institut Mines-Telecom
Institut Mines-Telecom is the largest engineering and research institute of France and includes IMT Atlantique, a new technological university focusing on digital technology, energy, and environment. Expertise of IMT covers a wide spectrum of waste to energy processes all along with biofuel characterisation and engine tests. In the COCPIT context, IMT act as project coordinator and developer of HTL continuous reactor and aromatics production, as well as dark fermentation and CO₂ recovery.
Nantes University
Nantes University has developed a long-term expertise in the valorisation of microalgae for different industrial sectors such as food, depollution, green chemistry, health and energy. In the COCPIT project Nantes University brings its microalgae production expertise in addition to the AlgoSolis platform, that develops and optimise new technologies for microalgal biomass production in real solar conditions and biorefining.
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) is among the top five Spanish universities in terms of research outputs. URV has been working with Ionic Liquids (ILs) since 2015 for the extraction of ingredients from wet and dried biomass. In the COCPIT project, URV will be in charge of lipids and proteins from wet biomass and its scale-up.
Aalborg University
Aalborg University is a young university, inaugurated in 1974, and with one of the best engineering programmes in the world. It hosts pilot scale facilities for continuous liquefaction, catalytic hydro-processing and distillation, supplemented by access to micro-scale parametric units and extensive analysis capabilities. First in its kind, AAU achieved the production of HTL-derived jet fuel from sewage sludge and performed combustion tests in an aviation turbine. In the context of COCPIT project, Aalborg University brings top-class knowledge regarding biocrude hydro-processing and it is in charge of fuel production.
DLR
DLR is the national aeronautics and space research centre of Germany and has strong expertise in jet fuel and SAF. In the COCPIT context, DLR implements the jet fuel pre-screening concept and method combined to the large data bank of conventional jet fuel and SAF compositions and properties in order to provide reliable feedback concerning suitability of aviation fuel candidates.
Agricultural University of Athens
The Agricultural University of Athens has strong expertise in valorisation of renewable resources, food processing and engineering, industrial biotechnology, biorefinery development, platform chemicals and biofuels production, LCA and techno-economic studies and (bio)process design. In the COCPIT project, AUA will be in charge of sustainability assessment, including TEA, LCA, sLCA and profitability risk assessment.
AlgoSource Technologies
AlgoSource Technologies is a research and consultancy firm focusing on the development and the valorisation of microalgae industrial processes, providing services in conceptual engineering and process development for all these domains of activities. In the COCPIT project, AlgoSource deals with the integration of all the single operations for further integration in industrial context.
HELLENiQ ENERGY
HELLENiQ ENERGY is one of the leading energy value chain groups in South East Europe, whose main activities include refining, supply, and trading of petroleum and petrochemical products, fuels Marketing both in Greece and internationally, renewable energy sources, power generation & trading, as well as supply, distribution and trading of natural gas. In the COCPIT project HELLENiQ will conduct market trend analysis and characterise diesel and gasoline at refinery’s lab.
WINGS
WINGS is a Greek SME providing integrated and intelligent digital solutions including AI techniques, based on which advanced decision support systems, digital twins and alerting and actuation systems are based. In the COCPIT project, WINGS will develop the COCPIT decision tool that enables simulation of scenarios through Digital Twin and optimise the pathway with Process Optimization or predict the pathway under uncertain parameters with Predective Analytics.
LEiTaT
LEITAT is a Spanish association of industrialists funded in 1906. LEITAT provides comprehensive solutions in multiple areas: development of new materials, interconnectivity and digitization of industry, maximization of energy efficiency. In the COCPIT project, LEITAT will optimize STPV performances, finding the best compromise between electricity production, algae protection from IR and transparency required for algae production.
ETA Florence Renewable Energies
ETA is an Italian SME active in the field of renewable energies delivering services ranging from planning and design of RE systems, to consultancies, dissemination and communication in European R&I projects. In the COCPIT project, ETA is the communication, dissemination and exploitation leader, as well as marketplace developer.