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Innovative Circular Businesses on Energy, Water, Fertilizer & Construction Industries towards a Greener Regional Economy (LIFE iCirBus-4Industries)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Dec 16, 2020,

Background Sewage sludge from water treatment plants is identified as a hazardous waste in the European Union, and its management is a major undertaking. The main environmental problems related to sewage sludge are: Its disposal in controlled landfills, which involves an ever-growing demand for capacity, and which generates emissions; Treatment using en ...
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Sustainable Algae Biorefinery for Agriculture aNd Aquaculture (SABANA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

SABANA aims at developing a large-scale integrated microalgae-based biorefinery for the production of biostimulants, biopesticides and feed additives, in addition to biofertilizers and aquafeed, using only marine water and nutrients from wastewaters (sewage, centrate and pig manure). The objective is to achieve a zero-waste process at a demonstration scales up to 5 ha sustainable both environmenta ...
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Microbial Desalination for Low Energy Drinking Water (MIDES)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Shortage of fresh water has become one of the major challenges for societies all over the world. Water desalination offers an opportunity to significantly increase the freshwater supply for drinking, industrial use and irrigation. All current desalination technologies require significant electrical or thermal energy, with today's Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination units consuming electric energy of ...
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WASTE STREAMS TREATMENT FOR OBTAINING SAFE RECLAIMED WATER AND BIOMETHANE FOR TRANSPORT SECTOR TO MITIGATE GHG EMISSIONS (LIFE METHAmorphosis)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Background Transport is one of the main causes of diffuse greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, established by the Kyoto Protocol, with about one third of anthropogenic emissions. The study of new technologies to mitigate emissions from the transport sector is of high strategic value to achieving the objectives of the European Union, within the framework of int ...
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Advanced Nutrient Solutions With Electrochemical Recovery (LIFE-ANSWER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Background Contaminants in wastewater from the brewing industry come mainly from equipment cleaning operations and treatment processes. The main pollutants are sulphates (1.2-2.0 Kg/h), bicarbonates (0.2-0.4 kg/hl) and nitrates (30-100 mg/l), which all cause severe environmental problems (especially in water bodies). The best techniques currently used for ...
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Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater (INCOVER)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Taking into account the current global water scarcity and the expensive operation and maintenance cost of wastewater treatment, INCOVER concept has been designed to move wastewater treatment from being primarily a sanitation technology towards a bio-product recovery industry and a recycled water supplier. A wastewater specific Decision Support System methodology will be tailored to the INCOVER tec ...
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Industrial scale demonstration of sustainable algae cultures for biofuel production (ALL-GAS)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

This project will demonstrate on large scale the sustainable production of bio-fuels based on low-cost microalgae cultures. The full chain of processes from algal ponds to biomass separation, processing for oil and other chemicals extraction, and downstream biofuel production, as well as the use in vehicles, will be implemented on a 10 ha site.Depending on the methodology chosen during the researc ...
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Recovery of reverse osmosis membranes at its end of life (REMEMBRANE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Background Seawater is the world’s main water resource and the process of desalination provides a way of tapping into it. The main technologies employed are thermal evaporation (distillation) and use of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. The world market for RO water treatment systems is growing quickly – from an estimated $1.4 billion in 2000 to $3.8 bi ...
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Intelligent Urban Water Management System (UrbanWater)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Improving the efficiency of water management in Europe was recognised by the EC as essential for overcoming the growing exposure of European countries to Water Scarcity and Droughts. UrbanWater proposes a platform that will enable a better end-to-end water management in urban areas, accounting for 17% of freshwater consumption in the EU.The project will undertake the development, demonstration, an ...
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High algal recovery using a Salsnes Water to Algae Treatment (SWAT) filter technology (Operation SWAT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Microalgae has been researched and cultivated commercially for human and animal nutrition, for cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications, for biofuels and biomass production, for wastewater treatment and to some extent for greenhouse gas abatement. The production for the microalgal biomass market today alone generates a turnover of 1.25 billion US$ per year (0.94 billion €/yr) while the total alga ...
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