Objective Heavy metal pollution is one of the most important environmental problems today even threatening human life. A large number of industries produce and discharge wastes containing different heavy metals into the environment and do not comply with current EU directives. BIOMETAL DEMO project aims at demonstrating the feasibility of the application of novel biotechnologies for the treatment of metal polluted wastewaters though the development of two pilot plants to be implemented in two metal polluting representative industries which are a mine and an electroplating company.Actual metal treatment technologies implemented in polluting industries fail to comply with the reduction of metal concentration required by the EU for wastewater treatments. For this reason, new technologies will be developed to overcome this problem.The biotechnologies that will be evaluated in BIOMETAL DEMO project will be: metal bioprecipitation by sulphate-reducing bacteria and immobilized phytase biocatalysis, and metal biosorption on agricultural industry by-products and biopolymers such as alginate & chitosan based materials.After the evaluation of these techniques, an optimized bioprocess or a synergy of two integrated bioprocesses will be selected to design and build two demonstration pilot plants for scaling-up the metal removal biotreatment.The feasibility of the application of the selected bioprocess will be explored at pilot plant scale in acid mine drainage and electroplating wastewaters contaminated with heavy metals.The operation will be monitored and optimized, and the kinetics and the performance of the metal removal/recovery bioprocess will be integrated within the pilot demonstration plants. Finally, an economic, social and technical analysis of the benefits of such tertiary biotreatment of metal polluted industrial wastewater will be carried out for the corresponding and related industrial sectors across EU. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesnatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriologymedical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisbiocatalysis Programme(s) FP7-ENVIRONMENT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) Topic(s) ENV.2013.WATER INNO&DEMO-1 - Water innovation demonstration projects Call for proposal FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator CONTACTICA SL Address Calle canchal 8 local 3 28021 Madrid Spain See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Manuel Roman Jimeno (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 374 614,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all INDUSTRIAL GONABE SL Spain EU contribution € 188 047,00 Address Calle cobalto parcela 96 47012 Valladolid See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Pablo Trilla (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window LCW CONSULT SA Portugal EU contribution € 296 868,40 Address Alameda fernao lopes 6 a 12 1495 190 Lisboa See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jorge Manuel Sousa Cruz (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window SERVIECOLOGIA Y TRATAMIENTO DE AGUAS SL Spain EU contribution € 334 898,00 Address Carretera castellon alcora km 19 5 12110 Alcora castellon See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact José Cabeza (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS France EU contribution € 486 454,20 Address Boulevard saint michel 60 75272 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Florence Thepenier (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE Portugal EU contribution € 192 491,30 Address Universidade do algarve 8005-139 Faro See on map Region Continente Algarve Algarve Administrative Contact Maria Clara Semedo Da Silva Costa (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID Spain EU contribution € 338 125,20 Address Avenida de seneca 2 28040 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact María Isabel Rodríguez Villa (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA Spain EU contribution € 356 924,80 Address Calle patio de escuelas 1 37008 Salamanca See on map Region Centro (ES) Castilla y León Salamanca Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maria De Los Angeles Serrano Garcia (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window HIDROLAB S.L. Spain EU contribution € 329 283,10 Address Calle c 10 poligono industrial 10 02007 Albacete See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Angel Polo (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
