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INCLUE · From waste to resource: Training young researchers on developing innovative, circular solutions for waste sludge

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2023-10-01 → 2027-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС
2 701 721 €
Участници
17
Схема
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Накратко на български

Улугите от пречиствателни станции се изследват като източник за производство на горива, торове и химикали чрез премахване на замърсителите в тях. Това помага за превръщането на отпадъците в полезни ресурси и насърчава кръговата икономика.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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From waste to resource: Training young researchers on developing innovative, circular solutions for waste sludge

The overarching aim of INCLUE is to provide top-level training to a new generation of high-potential doctoral candidates (DCs) in a crucial field of today’s society: the exploitation of organic waste streams as a resource. In this training through research program, INCLUE doctoral candidates will focus on sustainable and circular solutions to treat wastewater treatment sludge containing a wide variety of (in)organic pollutants, enabling the application of this untapped resource for renewable chemicals, materials, fuels and fertilisers. INCLUE hereby responds to the European Green Deal and Farm-to-Fork strategy, in which sludge has been identified as a prime biogenic renewable resource to boost circular economy in terms of renewable energy generation and organic fertilisers production. INCLUE entails an intersectoral consortium of 6 academic and 11 non-academic partners from 7 countries, who have developed an interdisciplinary training program, encompassing the fields of chemical & environmental engineering, (nano)materials science, chemistry, environmental biotechnology, microbial ecology, life sciences, modelling and ecotoxicology. The success of the program is guaranteed via a unique combination of state-of-the-art PhD research, intersectoral secondments, international mobility and interdisciplinary platform-wide courses. The Research objectives are: • To develop and optimise sustainable techniques to enhance the properties and composition of sludge through removal of (in)organic pollutants to eliminate any adverse effects for sludge application (i) in a subsequent bioconversion process or (ii) directly as a fertiliser on land. • To develop augmented fermentative bioconversion processes to produce renewable chemicals and fuels, and to recover nutrients from municipal and industrial sludges, potentially combined with pre-treatment technologies. • To create tools to assess the overall environmental performance of treated sludges towards toxicity, pollutant soil dynamics and agricultural fertilising value in a combined decision support tool (WP3) for 5 different types of pollutants: pesticides, endocrine disrupting compounds, heavy metals, PFAS and antibiotics. Develop a socio-economic evaluation tool, to support decision-making and societal acceptance.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Using waste as a resource is the way forward to realize a full circular and sustainable society. One of the most predominant waste streams in Europe concerns wastewater treatment sludge, with a total annual production surpassing 13 million tons. Sludge typically contains a diverse range of recalcitrant and potential hazardous contaminants such as PFAS, endocrine disruptors, pathogens and heavy metals, which necessitates the use of efficient & sustainable treatment strategies. Because of these hazardous substances, the beneficial use of sludge is currently limited with no adequate overall solutions. INCLUE responds to this opportunity by developing novel sludge treatment routes, generating the required insights to allow an optimisation of the current routes, assessing the effects of sludge application, and most importantly, training high-skilled experts in the rapidly expanding field of handling waste as a resource for renewable chemicals, materials and fuels. The main R&D emphasis of INCLUE lies indeed on developing innovative technological advances that combine the elimination of the increasingly present contaminants in sludge with a maximum resource recovery. Ten creative and entrepreneurial-minded DCs will be trained via an international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training program, pushed by a broad consortium of 6 academic and 11 industrial organisations. The highly relevant field, combined with an advanced training program that encompasses transversal skills and training through research will ensure that highly trained professionals will enter the job market, further strengthening the competitiveness of the EU in this domain.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз