Project description
Extracting fertilisers out of used alkaline batteries
Over 50 % of the soils where cereals grow worldwide are deficient in vital trace elements such as zinc and manganese. Micronutrient deficiencies in farmlands have negative implications not only for crop yields but also for human health. The EU-funded RENUTRI project is developing an innovative technology to extract and purify zinc and manganese from alkaline batteries and circulate them back to nature as micronutrients. The project has borrowed the innovative idea from the large number of alkaline batteries that are disposed as solid waste every year.
Objective
The majority of alkaline battery recycling plants are working at maximum capacity and cannot cope with increasing demand. Safety issues, vast energy consumption and high process temperatures make smelting plants a dangerous and outdated technology. Battery manufacturers have produced and distributed over 10 billion alkaline batteries worldwide and the amount of used batteries increases at six percent annually. Many countries are unable to keep up with the environmental impacts. Fifty-one percent of global agricultural land and thus food plants globally suffer from micronutrient deficiency. Tracegrow introduces new recycling capabilities for alkaline battery and an innovative end product—micronutrient fertilizer. The proposed feasibility study enhances the company’s potential for international expansion and capability to create a new niche market in recycling used minerals into ecological soil micronutrients.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry transition metals
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds cereals
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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86710 KARSAMAKI
Finland
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