Resource-smart upcycling fish processing side streams as part of a circular economy (UP-SIDE)

Research Project, 2024 – 2026

Seafood production generates up to 70% side streams, currently going to low value uses as feed or biogas. The pH shift process is a unique route to produce high quality food proteins and oil from such side streams; allowing shorter and less energy-demanding seafood value chains. Based on successful research on the pH-shift process at Chalmers, AquaFood was founded in 2021, and now moves towards industrial process implementation, which can truly raise
resource efficiency within the seafood industry. To aid this ambition, UP-SIDE aims at; (i) securing critical volumes of safe and high-quality fish side streams for pH-shift-based food production; (ii) improving the pH-shift technology in terms of TRL, safety and resource efficiency; (iii) benchmarking and customizing the protein and oil products to aid a more diversified future food system. A powerful industry-driven project team, deeply anchored in research;
AquaFood, Alfa Laval Nordic and Chalmers motivates successful outcomes.