BioPROTEIN: Difference between revisions

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BioPROTEIN (Biological Plastic Reuse by Olefin and Ester Transforming Engineered Isolates and Natural Consortia), is a four year project starting in 2020 that aims to refine a method of chemical and high heat (pyrolysis) deconstruction of plastic waste that enables it to be converted into protein powder and lubricants.

Collaborators

BioPROTEIN is a collaboration between Steve Techtmann, a professor of biological sciences, chemical engineers Rebecca Ong and David Shonnard and materials engineer Joshua Pearce at Michigan Technological University and Ting Lu, professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hardware Designs

Publications

In the News

From Plastic to Protein Powder MTU News 21.3k
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2. Mirage News 87.2k
3. The National Tribune (Australia)
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 '''BioPROTEIN''' (Biological Plastic Reuse by Olefin and Ester Transforming Engineered Isolates and Natural Consortia), is a four year project starting in 2020 that aims to refine a method of chemical and high heat (pyrolysis) deconstruction of plastic waste that enables it to be converted into protein powder and lubricants.
+[[image:Plastic-to-protein-process-vertical1200.jpg|The process of taking plastic waste and converting it into protein powder and lubricant. Image Credit: Steve Techtmann/Michigan Tech ]]
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 ==Hardware Designs==
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+|image:Osdesign.png |[[General Design Procedure for Free and Open-Source Hardware for Scientific Equipment]]
+|image:Oscale.png|[[Open Source Digitally Replicable Lab-Grade Scales]]
+|image:Osgran.png|[[Open Source Waste Plastic Granulator]]
+|image:gigahx.jpg|[[Open Source Multi-Head 3D Printer for Polymer-Metal Composite Component Manufacturing]]
+|image:OSGrinder.png|[[Open-Source Grinding Machine for Compression Screw Manufacturing]]
+|image:chemcompat.png|[[Chemical Compatibility of Fused Filament Fabrication-based 3-D Printed Components with Solutions Commonly Used in Semiconductor Wet Processing]]
+|image:hxpol.png|[[Experimental Characterization of Heat Transfer in an Additively Manufactured Polymer Heat Exchanger]]
+|Image:Feedingeveryone.jpg|[[Feeding Everyone No Matter What]]
+|Image:Foodweb.png|[[Feeding Everyone: Solving the Food Crisis in Event of Global Catastrophes that Kill Crops or Obscure the Sun]]
+|Image:us-pop.png|[[Resilience to global food supply catastrophes]]
+|image:Foodmake.jpg|[[Feeding Everyone if the Sun is Obscured and Industry is Disabled]]
+|image:Charm-mtu.png|[[Preliminary Automated Determination of Edibility of Alternative Foods: Non-Targeted Screening for Toxins in Red Maple Leaf Concentrate]]
+|image:scp.png|[[Potential of microbial protein from hydrogen for preventing mass starvation in catastrophic scenarios]]
+}}
 ==Publications==
+==In the News==
+#[https://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2020/september/from-plastic-to-protein-powder.html From Plastic to Protein Powder] MTU News 21.3k
+## [https://www.newsbreak.com/michigan/houghton/news/2061747658003/from-plastic-to-protein-powder NewsBreak] 1982
+## [https://www.miragenews.com/from-plastic-to-protein-powder/ Mirage News] 87.2k
+## [https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/from-plastic-to-protein-powder/ The National Tribune (Australia)]
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