Offshore marine biorefinery in Israel a consolidated approach to support bioeconomy and blue growth.

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1 Offshore marine biorefinery in Israel a consolidated approach to support bioeconomy and blue growth. Alexander Golberg, PhD Porter School of Environmental Studies agolberg@gmail.com MOBI, May 2017

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3 G7 leaders are calling to phase out fossil fuels by 2100 Although

4 Bioeconomy as an alternative New plants Cultivation technology Renewable feedstock New processes Agriculture Fishery Forestry New processes Food Chemicals Energy Less fossil fuels Materials recycling Waste By products Less waste

5 Example of Denmark Road Map

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7 Bio-Chemicals Feedstocks Micro Algae (3-5micron) Macro Algae Arable Plants

8 Where do we have area to grow biomass in Israel?

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10 Marine Biorefinery Initiative

11 Local and International Collaborations

12 Coordinated research Global examples Norway Netherlands Ireland China Denmark

13 AlgaePARC research program - Wageningen

14 MacroBioCrude 2.3M Horizon

15 World Seaweed Production: CEVA 5 orders of magnitude less than arable biomass

16 Offshore macroalgae cultivation With Alvaro Israel, Alex Liberzon Yoav Lehahn and Ilan HaKohen

17 Stream average speed (cm/s) Cultivation site OS- PBR Stream speed measurement OS-PBR 1 OS-PBR 2 OS-PBR Distance from shore (m) unpublished

18 Alex Chemodanov at IEC Reading site

19 Ulva sp.dgr (Reading, cages) Ulva sp daily growth rates, % 25.0% Series1 Series2 Series3 20.0% 15.0% 10.0% 5.0% 0.0% 14 Jan -5.0% 28 Jan 11 Feb 25 Feb 10 Mar 24 Mar 7 Apr 21 Apr 5 May 19 May 2 Jun Jun 30 Jun 14 Jul 28 Jul 11 Aug 25 Aug 8 Sep 22 6 Oct Sep 20 Oct 3 Nov 17 Nov 1 Dec 15 Dec 29 Dec 12 Jan % -15.0% unpublished

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21 Ethanol Requirement Kt/year Confidence 90% % Israel EEZ Ulva to bioethanol in Israel % 60% 50% 20% 10% 5% % From National Israel demand for transportation fuel Area Requiremnt km DGR measured offshore DGR with potential intensification 100% 60% 50% 20% 10% 5% % From National Israel demand for tranasportation DGR measured offshore DGR with potential itensification 100% 60% 50% 20% 10% 5% % From National Israel demand for transportation Average DGR at the sea is 4.7% and in the lab 33% unpublished

22 How to intensify the growth per area? Golberg and Liberzon Algal Research, 2015 Arie Faterson, Maxim Kuzminov, Hadar Troygot

23 Electroporation for Processing Cell membrane before electroporation Applications in Medicine and Industry Irreversible electroporation Electrochemotherapy Pore at the cell membrane after electroporation DNA vaccination Sugar extraction

24 Pulsed Electric Fields System for Processing Arthur Robin, François Fernand, Mark Polikovsky (TAU), Martin Sack (KIT)

25 3500 V/cm, 5µs, 75 pulses at 1 Hz Polikovsky et al IFSET 20

26 Protein Extraction from Green Macroalgae With Alvaro Israel and Yoav Livney Jincheng Luo, Arthur Robin

27 The Question is How to Scale Up?

28 Benefits and Implications A balance and understanding are needed

29 Marine Biorefinery steering team from 20 Representatives from academia, public companies and 4 governmental offices (Energy, Environment, Agriculture and Prime Minister Office). Promoting the proof of concept study for economic production of biomass offshore as a raw material for food, chemical and biofuel industries Promoting the areas allocation for future offshore biomass production Promoting the establishment of a joint algae processing facility Everybody is welcome to join and give an input

30 Current Challenges Long term infrastructure planning Offshore areas legal status High risk for the private sector Lack of basic biology and ecology knowledge and low cost technologies Personnel training But very large potential to create a new industrial and knowledge infrastructure in Israel.

31 Acknowledgments Edward Vitkin (Technion) Zohar Yakhini ( Technion) Alex Liberzon (TAU) Yohav Lehahn ( WIS) Gregory Linshiz (JBEI) Nathan Hillson (JBEI) Mark Koudritsky (Google) Saaba Ahmad Khan (McGill University and UN) Alexander Chemodanov (TAU) Francois Fernand (TAU) Mark Polikovsky (TAU) Arthur Robin (TAU) Alvaro Israel (IOLR) Hadar Troygot (TAU) Ministry of Infrastructure Energy and Water Resources Ministry of Health Innovation Authority TAU Center for Innovation in Transportation