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Valorization of the digestate from pig manure as new fertilizers with an organic / mineral base and gradual release (LIFE MIX_FERTILIZER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Background While the benefits of modern fertilisers are well known, their manufacture has a huge impact on the environment. The fertiliser industry alone accounts for 1.2% of the world’s total energy consumption. Ammonium is the basic component for the production of nitrogen fertilisers, but this process is very energy intensive (36.6 GJ/t NH3) as we ...
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Process for sustainable phosphorus recovery from agricultural residues by enzymatic process to enable a service business for the benefit of European farm community (PHOSFARM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

PhosFarm addresses the increasing market for a sustainable and economically phosphorus (P) recovery from agricultural residues to meet growing demand for food, bio-fuels and bio-materials. Recent studies demonstrated that the EU is highly vulnerable to the foreseeable P scarcity because of its entire dependency on imported phosphate rocks for the fertilizer production. To avoid this dependency, ne ...
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