Project description
Identifying industrial chemicals in soil and water
Industry plays an important role in supporting the circular economy. To help Europe reach its ambitious Green Deal objectives, the EU-funded PROMISCES project will identify how industrial pollution prevents the development of a circular economy in the EU and detect strategies to overcome the principal bottlenecks that impede reaching the targets of the European Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan. The project will develop new analytical methods and toxicological tools to deliver data on persistent, mobile (PM) substances in complex environmental matrices and investigate sources of PM substances released from soil, sediments, landfills and wastewater treatment plants and via urban runoff into relevant natural systems. PROMISCES will assess fate and transport processes and improve the assessment and management of human health risks.
Objective
PROMISCES will identify how industrial pollution prevents the deployment of the circular economy (CE) in the EU and which strategies help overcome key bottlenecks to deliver the ambitions of the European Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan.
PROMISCES considers specific CE routes including (i) semi-closed water cycles for drinking water supply at urban and catchment scale; (ii) wastewater reuse for irrigation in agriculture; (iii) nutrient recovery from sewage sludge; (iv) material recovery from dredged sediment and (v) land remediation for safe reuse in urban areas.
To reach its goals, PROMISCES will:
- Develop new analytical methods and toxicological tools to provide data on persistent, mobile (PM) substances (i.e. PFAS and other industrial chemicals) in complex environmental matrices.
- Explore sources and environmental pathways of PM substances released from (i) soil; (ii) sediment; (iii) landfills; (iv) wastewater treatment plants and via (v) urban runoff into relevant environmental compartments (soil, sediment, surface water, groundwater).
- Assess fate and transport pathways within the different CE routes and evaluate the impacts of corrective measures.
- Improve the assessment and management of human health risks from drinking water and agricultural products.
- Develop and demonstrate cost-efficient and sustainable technologies for the removal of PM substances from different media.
- Translate PROMISCES results into guidance for efficient and feasible management of PM substances and recommendations for the implementation of relevant EU policy strategies and directives.
- Integrate the results into a decision support framework which considers resource recovery and water reuse and supports chemical management decisions with regards to i) stakeholders and societal demands; ii) PM chemical properties iii) technical solutions to prevent, mitigate and remediate industrial pollution and iv) the whole life cycle of current and future chemicals.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringirrigation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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10825 BERLIN
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60550 Verneuil En Halatte
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75238 Paris
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80-172 Gdansk
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06844 Dessau-Rosslau
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10179 Berlin
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1098 XH Amsterdam
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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01700 Miribel Les Echets
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60486 Frankfurt
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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28006 Madrid
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2629 HV Delft
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1040 Wien
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56068 Koblenz
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60121 Ancona
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08403 Granollers
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08403 Granollers
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2611 AL Delft
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08030 Barcelona
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00189 Rome
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1504 Sofia
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60019 Senigallia
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1098 XH Amsterdam
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78170 La Celle-Saint-Cloud
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1138 Budapest
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06410 Biot
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59260 Lezennes
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