Project description
Training for phosphorus recovery from dairy wastewater
Life would not exist without phosphorus (P). It’s an essential nutrient for human life, crop cultivation, and animal husbandry. Effective recovery from dairy processing water into fertiliser products increases the sustainability of the European dairy industry. The EU-funded REFLOW project will create innovative and entrepreneurial training by bringing scientists and stakeholders together with early-stage researchers to study the recovery of P from dairy processing wastewater and its use in fertilisers. The project will mitigate the environmental impact of dairy processing waste on soil and water and provide sustainable and cost-effective closed-loop solutions for crop nutrient management. The training will support the market for recycled P fertiliser products.
Objective
REFLOW is an interdisciplinary cross-sectoral European Training Network combining world-leading scientists and key stake-holders in dairy processing, fertilizer production and phosphorous recycling with early stage researchers to address important technical and socio-economic challenges associated with the recovery of phosphorous from dairy processing waste water and its recycling into fertilizer products enabling sustainable expansion of the dairy industry in Europe. REFLOW research will (i) mitigate the environmental impact of dairy processing waste on soil and water, (ii) provide safe environmentally sustainable, cost effective closed loop solutions for crop nutrient management (iii) meet the demand for skilled professionals to support the technical, regulatory and commercial development of the market for recycled phosphorous fertilizer products in accordance with the deliverables of the Circular Economy Package. REFLOW will achieve these goals by creating an innovative and entrepreneurial training environment for the next generation of scientists. 13 ESRs will be recruited in a network of 10 beneficiaries and 14 partner organisations who bring complementary expertise and experience of delivering technical solutions, socio-economic modeling, environmental analysis, policy frameworks, high level training and commercial entrepreneurship. Graduating fellows will be equipped with a unique range of relevant interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral skills for careers as independent industrial or academic researchers, entrepreneurs, regulators or agri-environmental specialists. REFLOW will train the Fellows through an integrated and cohesive curriculum of network-wide partner training activities including industrial secondments and embedded commercially driven research projects. The outputs from REFLOW will influence land management practice, the rural bio-economy framework and EU policy goals while significantly progressing the state-of-the-art in Phosphorous recycling.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedairy
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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- Limerick
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08500 Vic Barcelona
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50-370 Wroclaw
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4480 Engis
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60026 Beauvais Cedex
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R93 Carlow
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412 96 GOTEBORG
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91190 Gif Sur Yvette
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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8000 Aarhus C
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6708 PB Wageningen
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Partners (14)
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75007 Paris
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8540 Deerlijk
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60121 Ancona
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9000 Gent
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SA2 8PP Swansea
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47 220 Kedzierzyn Kozle
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E45X P86 Nenagh
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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6708 PB Wageningen
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1060 Bruxelles / Brussel
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H91 Galway
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V94 Limerick
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00161 Roma
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