matter, such as flotation of suspended biomass and the recollection of the biogas produced in digestion. The project team expects that this technology will be transferrable to scenarios where conventional anaerobic bioreactors are an inefficient means of treating wastewater. These include cases of excess salinity, large fluctuations in the concentration and composition of wastewater, and wastewater with abnormally high concentrations of nitrogen, among others. ZERO The ZERO BRINE project aims to facilitate the 1-6-2017 31-5-2021 Horizon ? ? BRINE implementation of the Circular Economy package and the 2020 the value SPIRE Roadmap in various process industries by and supply developing the necessary concepts, technological chain of solutions and business models to re-design the value and water and supply chains of minerals (including magnesium) and minerals: a water, while dealing with present organic compounds in circular a way that allows their subsequent recovery. economy This is achieved by demonstrating new configurations to approach recover these resources from saline impaired effluents for the (brines) generated by process industry, while eliminating recovery of wastewater discharge and minimising environmental resources impact of industrial operations through brines (ZERO from saline BRINE). The project will bring together and integrate impaired several existing and innovative technologies aiming to effluent recover end-products of high quality and sufficient purity (brine) with good market value. It will be carried out by large generated Process Industries, SMEs with disruptive technologies and by process a Brine Consortium of technology suppliers across EU, industries while world-class research centres ensure strong scientific capacity and inter-disciplinary coordination to account for social, economic and environmental considerations, including LCA. A large scale demonstration will be developed in the Energy Port and Petrochemical cluster of Rotterdam Port, involving local large industries. Two demo plants will be able to treat part of the brine effluents generated by one process
matter, such as flotation of suspended biomass and the recollection of the biogas produced in digestion. The project team expects that this technology will be transferrable to scenarios where conventional anaerobic bioreactors are an inefficient means of treating wastewater. These include cases of excess salinity, large fluctuations in the concentration and composition of wastewater, and wastewater with abnormally high concentrations of nitrogen, among others. ZERO BRINE the value and supply chain of water and minerals: a circular economy approach for the recovery of resources from saline impaired effluent (brine) generated by process industries The ZERO BRINE project aims to facilitate the implementation of the Circular Economy package and the SPIRE Roadmap in various process industries by developing the necessary concepts, technological solutions and business models to re-design the value and supply chains of minerals (including magnesium) and water, while dealing with present organic compounds in a way that allows their subsequent recovery. This is achieved by demonstrating new configurations to recover these resources from saline impaired effluents (brines) generated by process industry, while eliminating wastewater discharge and minimising environmental impact of industrial operations through brines (ZERO BRINE). The project will bring together and integrate several existing and innovative technologies aiming to recover end-products of high quality and sufficient purity with good market value. It will be carried out by large Process Industries, SMEs with disruptive technologies and a Brine Consortium of technology suppliers across EU, while world-class research centres ensure strong scientific capacity and inter-disciplinary coordination to account for social, economic and environmental considerations, including LCA. A large scale demonstration will be developed in the Energy Port and Petrochemical cluster of Rotterdam Port, involving local large industries. Two demo plants will be able to treat part of the brine effluents generated by one process 1-6-2017 31-5-2021 Horizon 2020 ? ?
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