A controlled environment for microalgae production
NuFoods' cultivation platform is centred on photobioreactors designed to provide greater control over the conditions that influence microalgae growth, composition and product quality.
Culture conditions
Managing light, temperature, nutrients, gas exchange, circulation and other operating conditions around the needs of the biology.
Repeatability
Building a production environment that can be monitored, controlled and reproduced consistently.
Product outcome
Operating the cultivation system around the characteristics required in the finished ingredient.
Light becomes a controllable production input
Light is fundamental to photoautotrophic microalgae production. NuFoods intends to use managed LED lighting alongside its photobioreactor platform to provide greater control over light availability and operating conditions.
Intensity
Manage the amount of light delivered to the culture as part of the controlled production environment.
Photoperiod
Control when and for how long supplemental light is available to the culture.
Repeatability
Reduce dependence on changing external daylight conditions and support more consistent operation.
Understand, control and improve the process
Process monitoring gives NuFoods visibility into how cultivation and processing conditions affect biological performance and finished product quality.
Operating visibility
Track the process variables that matter across cultivation and downstream production.
Continuous refinement
Use measured operating performance to improve repeatability, quality and process efficiency.
Scale-up control
Carry process knowledge and operating discipline forward as production increases.
The cultivation system does not stop at harvest
The value of the process is determined by the finished ingredient, not simply the amount of biomass produced. NuFoods develops harvesting, concentration and downstream processing as part of the same production system.
EPA-rich algal oil
Recovery and processing developed around the composition, quality, stability and commercial requirements of the target oil.
Whole-cell microalgae ingredients
Harvesting and preparation developed to retain the characteristics required in the finished whole-cell ingredient.
Designed for repeatability
Commercial ingredient production requires more than good biological performance. It requires a process that can be monitored, controlled and repeated. Automation and process control are built into the NuFoods platform to support consistent operation as production develops.
Energy is engineered into the production system
Lighting, circulation, temperature control, harvesting and downstream processing all contribute to the energy demand of microalgae production. NuFoods treats energy performance as a core engineering and commercial requirement.
Cultivation demand
Understand the energy required to create and control the biological production environment.
Processing demand
Manage the energy implications of harvesting, concentration, drying and product processing.
Commercial impact
Refine the complete system around both technical performance and commercial production economics.
Scale a defined platform, not reinvent it
NuFoods' scale-up strategy is built around carrying a defined production architecture forward while progressively improving performance, control and integration.
Measure
Capture biological, product and operating performance.
Learn
Understand what drives quality, productivity, recovery and energy demand.
Refine
Optimise cultivation, lighting, controls and downstream integration.
Scale
Carry the refined platform into increasingly larger production.
One connected production system
Technology supports the product outcome
The objective is a controlled, integrated production platform that turns microalgae biology into repeatable and commercially relevant ingredients.
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