Smart rumen composites for metabolic diseases - SMARTCAP

Project summary

Europe has to reduce greenhouse gases by 30% until 2030. SMARTCAP can be solution to solve metabolic diseases and greenhouse emissions following the specific objectives: a) identification of requirements and specifications for processing high performance composites as smart rumen capsules -TRL 2; b) to design and develop of smart capsule by valorization of natural resources - TRL 3; c) to characterize and evaluate the SMARTCAP capsules - TRL 3; d) to demonstrate and validate the green manufacturing processes and prototype in relevant environment - TRL 4; e) to facilitate successful exploitation of results and communication. The expected results are experimental models; reports on physicochemical/biological tests; prototype SMARTCAP capsules and Illite-Feed-Additive - IFA; patent applications – 2; published articles – 6; conferences – 20; workshops – 3; website. The SMARTCAP approach generates a new concept of development natural performance composite materials with smart properties.