Sustainable agriculture using blast furnace and steel slags as liming agents

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: 7210-PR-267

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2001

End date 30 June 2004

Funded under

• Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Total cost € 1 037 770,00

EU contribution € 622 662,00

Coordinated by

FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT EISENHÜTTENSCHLACKEN
Germany

Objective

Steel industry develops fertilisers from BOF steel slag, which could be used to provide agriculture with excellent liming agents to protect soil to acidify. These new fertilisers are in competition to natural liming materials. This research should show that steel slags are good fertilising materials with no harmful effects on the soil and to the groundwater. Test fields, which have been treated with fertilisers from iron and steel slag on long-term experiments, will be investigated to draft clear statements on the sustainable effects of the use of iron and steel slags in agriculture.

Programme(s)

• ECSC-STEEL C - Medium-term guidelines for the ECSC steel RTD programme of research and pilot/demonstration projects, 1996-2002

Topic(s)

• C1 - Primary steelmaking

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT EISENHÜTTENSCHLACKEN

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Bliersheimer Strasse 62 ; 47229 DUISBURG ; Germany
• Total cost: No data

Participants (4)

BUNDESAMT UND FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUR LANDWIRTSCHAFT

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Spargelfeldstraße 191 ; 1226 WIEN
• Total cost: No data

CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES METALURGICAS

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Avenida Gregorio del Amo 8 ; 28040 MADRID
• Total cost: No data

THOMASDÜNGER

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Schadowstraße 42 ; 40212 DÜSSELDORF
• Total cost: No data

THYSSEN KRUPP STAHL

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Kaiser-Wilhelmstrasse 100 ; 47166 DUISBURG
• Total cost: No data