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The project (“Green fish oil from bue industry”), to be implemented in the triennium from 2021 to 2023, aiming to demonstrate and implement new technologies, with a high degree of technological maturity, which make possible the innovative production of fish oil resulting from the exclusive production of tuna of the species Katsuwonus pelamis, aka tuna-“bonito”, “gaiado” or skipjack. At the same time, to undertake a set of research and development (“R&D”) activities carried out by Cofaco Açores - Indústria de Conservas, S.A, (hereinafter referred to as “Cofaco”, “Cofaco Açores”, “Promoter” or “ Company ”), leading promoter of the project, which will be enhanced by the academic and practical / industrial knowledge of the University of Algarve, hereinafter referred to only as (“UAlg”) or (“partner ”) partner entity of the project under consideration.
Without the completion of this investment project, and the respective acquisition of specialized equipment for the reuse of the animal by-product and, with the increase of these, there has been a high pressure on the WWTP, creating an effluent that requires much more resources materials (addition of substances / compounds) and time to become an effluent that can be discharged, thus generating unnecessary entropy in the process and in the ecosystem itself.
In this context, through the project under consideration, the Promoter aims to train itself with the physical means (acquisition of cutting-edge technology, namely a decanter and a centrifuge for the production of refined and marketable fish oil) and technicians (through the establishment of partnerships with technical researchers specialized in the nutritional characterization and enhancement of the product under consideration) necessary for the industrial production of fish oil, at the same tame with the fish flour production process, both produced from by-products of the tuna canning industry at the Cofaco factory in Rabo de Peixe, Azores.