H2P

Impetus was part of a Flanders’ FOOD project together with Clarys Food Ingredients and Avecom, called ‘H2P - Hydrogen to Protein’. The goal of the project was to investigate the creation of Single Cell Proteins (SCP) using gas fermentation of hydrogen and CO2.

For this project, Impetus designed a pilot reactor from scratch. Through literature screening on fermentation technology and using the existing gas reactor technology we managed to create a fast track to a first version of a highly efficient gas fermentor that immediately proved to be successful. A clever concept to operate the fermentor as a completely closed system drastically improved the production efficiency.

This gas fermentation unit is now available for further development of the gas fermentation technology and high pressure fermentation.