PureVFA

Production of sustainable and pure chemicals from waste-derived volatile fatty acids

PureVFA seeks to develop and demonstrate a waste-to-value strategy that will turn organic wastes into functional chemical products. The project will incorporate a fermentation process to produce a specific volatile fatty acid (VFA) as a new bio-based platform with separation and purification steps to obtain pure market-ready chemicals. In this hypothesis testing project, ammonium acetate will be the target chemical to be produced from the platform VFAs.