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To a Fair, Inclusive, Circular and Healthy cities: Valorisation of phosphogypsum wastes into commercial products through sustainable and circular processes

Project description

Addressing phosphogypsum waste and enabling circularity

The growing impact and success of the green transition, as well as other green initiatives in recent years, has led to increasing pressure on policy and decision-makers to address harmful accumulations of waste near cities, as well as cultural and natural heritage. The EU-funded FIC-FIGHTERS project aims to develop and validate a solution to valorise phosphogypsum waste (PG) into sustainable raw materials suitable for the production of cement, batteries, fertilisers, and so forth. The project will build a mobile pilot plant, set up a PG forum for local discussions and collaboration, address challenges in the valorisation processes, collect data and create guidelines for achieving circularity.

Objective

FIC-FIGHTERS is a local democracy project. It is the search for new economic models deliberately agreed to manage of waste that harms the natural and cultural heritage. It is a space for discussion on the adoption of alternatives for wastes that has been accumulating near our cities for decades. The project will involve different local actors, industries, authorities, SMEs, RTD centers, and universities to inclusively scale up to TRL6-7 waste recovery processes under the premises of the circular economy, focusing on the valorization of phosphogypsum waste (PG) to generate sustainable raw materials for use in the paper, cement, batteries, fertilizers and detergents industries. For 48 months, the different actors, in cooperation with the CCRI, will be involved in making the new circular business models a reality. The project will:
1) Build a mobile pilot plant (TRL7) based on optimised results and digital twin of the processes to demonstrate the sustainable production of raw materials (sodium sulfate, REE and P, aluminum hydroxide, ammonium sulfate and precipitated calcium carbonate) for different industries, starting from phosphogypsum and other wastes.
2) Create a PG forum for local discussions and develop local workshops in each of the 6 case studies, including citizen participation, addressing socio-economic, environmental and regulation aspects of the new circular business models developed to become a reality and reaching trust and acceptance.
3) Address the flexibility and replicability of the valorization processes by involving 7 case studies and create the first known PG Exploitation Portal aiming to identify, characterise, and reach all European cities with same problematic.
4) Contribute to knowledge exchange in clustering and CCRI events; creating a Community of Practice and making the results of the project publicly available and exploitable, addressing IP protection.
5) Provide guidelines to reach circularity based on LCA, LCC, social and H&S studies.

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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-02

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Coordinator

IDENER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AIE
Net EU contribution
€ 1 087 201,50
Address
GONZALO JIMÉNEZ DE QUESADA, NUM 2, FLOOR 11, TORRE SEVILLA
41092 SEVILLA
Spain
Region
Sur Andalucía Sevilla
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Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 1 087 201,50

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