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Management of environmentaly sound recycling of oil-shale ashes into road construction products. Demonstration in Estonia (OSAMAT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 15, 2016,

Background Over 90% of the power supply in Estonia comes from oil shale–fired thermal power plants. Every year some 11 million tonnes of oil shale is burned, producing more than six million tonnes of oil shale ash (OSA). Currently this is mostly disposed of by spreading on land, which causes pollution of millions of cubic metres of rainwater each year. ...
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Introduction and Implementation of Life Cycle Assessment Methodology in Estonia: Effects of Oil Shale Electricity on the Environmental Performance of Products (OSELCA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2003, End date: Dec 31, 2005,

Background About 95% of electricity produced in Estonia is based on oil shale, a solid fossil fuel. The oil-shale energy production is a strategic industry in Estonia that utilises extensive amounts of natural and human resources. The share of oil shale extraction and treatment waste in waste generation in 2001 totalled 77% of all waste and 97% of all haz ...
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