Objective
Contributing to the CCRI project portfolio, CisWEFE-NEX will demonstrate the implementation of a circular systemic WEFE Nexus, an innovative, fully integrated, & sustainable approach applying the principles of circular economy for closing loops in the key value chains of food, water & nutrients in severely water stressed regions:
1. Water:
- A net positive freshwater balance to the water cycle (JRC 2021) will be achieved through combining olive mill wastewater reuse (as a co-product from biophenols extraction) with saltwater desalination at scale without using fossil fuels for use as drinking & irrigation water.
- Waste streams from desalination (brine & bitterns) will be repurposed in nature-based solar saltworks as table & Epsom salt, made possible because of zero chemical use in the desalination process.
2. Energy:
- Cutting-edge renewable energy technologies will be developed & demonstrated to achieve a net-zero direct fossil GHG emissions process.
- Agri-photovoltaics (crops under PV panels) and biogas from advanced (ultrasonic cavitation assisted) anaerobic digestion fed from olive mill & other biowastes.
3. Food:
- Innovative nature-based techniques will be demonstrated to enable truly sustainable, healthy, and fresh food & seaweed (containing bioactive compounds for pharma use) production at scale.
- Saltwater integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (free of growth hormones, antibiotics, synthetic fertilisers, & preservatives).
- Regenerative agriculture (organic permaculture reusing precious water & nutrients) and extractive reuse of biophenols from olive mill waste as bioactive products of very high nutri-pharmaceutical value.
4. Ecosystems:
- Monitoring of traditional & emerging (micro)pollutants using cutting-edge analytics will prevent harmful impacts on the environment & food grown from it with predictive alerts & remedies through a mobile controlled cavitation unit providing (waste)water treatment services (advanced oxidation processes, disinfection).
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringirrigation
- engineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdesalination
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36410 Porrino
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34000 Montpellier
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4450-309 Matosinhos
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18556 DRANSKE
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90133 Palermo
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76307 Karlsbad
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5300-358 BRAGANCA
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5281 PS Boxtel
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00198 Roma
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8150-101 SAO BRAS DE ALPORTEL
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1600 312 Lisboa
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1100-548 LISBOA
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3800 Aveiro
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54655 Thessaloniki
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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13545 AIX EN PROVENCE CEDEX
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41092 Sevilla
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4060-453 Porto
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CH-4058 Basel
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8000 164 Faro
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7004 514 EVORA
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35003 Las Palmas De Gran Canaria
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8800-951 Tavira
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Olhão
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1271 Givrins
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