THE CASE
Cattle are the leading global source of anthropogenic methane. Maripure has developed a feed supplement derived from seaweed that significantly reduces methane emissions in cattle. Their seaweed production uses aquaculture wastewater ensuring a triple benefit:
Lowering emission of excess nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater
Improved seaweed production efficiency and reduced operation costs
Reduced capital and operational expenses for fish farms by avoiding wastewater treatment.
In the Interflow project, Maripure, DTU Aqua and FORCE Technology research, demonstrate and quantify the techno-economic benefits of this bioremediation process, and assess the opportunities for applying carbon capture technology. This pre-commercial validation will allow Maripure to de-risk the techical challenges, quantify its benefits for stakeholders in the value chain and prepare for replication at commercial scale.
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Maripure
THE COLLABORATION
Maripure is part of DTU Science Park's highly ambitious growth "GreenUp" programme for climate tech startups focused on CO2 reductions. As official soft funding partner, Gate2Growth provides strategic sparring to the participating companies. This fostered a collaboration with Maripure for ideating and creating the InterFlow proposal.
Gate2Growth supported in scoping the project and its fit in Mariupure's overall funding stategy, managed the writing process and coordination between all partnering organisations.