Project description DEENESFRITPL Growing crops without putting the planet at risk Intensive agricultural practices pose a serious risk to human health and the planet’s ecosystem. For instance, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) – poisonous, highly reactive gases – from agricultural soils can contribute to air quality issues. The EU-funded NOx Conversion project will analyse the situation in California, where agricultural soils are a dominant source of NOx pollution. This is based on a bottom-up spatial model of soil NOx emissions and top-down airborne observations of atmospheric NOx concentrations. To reverse this trend, the project will invest in management practices. It is developing a disruptive technology (currently patent pending) that will undergo thorough evaluation in the real environment to prove its efficacy in a quantified manner. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Crop Intellect Ltd have conceived and proved an innovative technique to capture NOx and convert it to nitrates for usein agriculture. It is for the first time, NOx have been demonstrated as substrates for production of nitrate fertiliser directlyon crop foliage. Competitive advantages of the technology include: (i) leading to application of no N fertilisers to crops. This willsave money and increase crop yields whilst protecting the environment; (ii) generating cost savings of 68.70% to the farmercompared to current practices of N fertiliser application as well as generating extra revenue of €1,616/ha to the farmer; and (iii)using atmospheric NOx as substrates for production of N fertiliser can help mitigate nitrogen pollution.Nitrogen pollution is a significant environmental problem in Europe and around the world as its impacts include contributions toglobal warming. The total annual cost to the EU of nitrogen pollution’s environmental impacts is €70–320 Billion. To address thisproblem the EU have introduced directives, such as 2001/81/EC and 2008/50/EC. In industrial facilities, there are severalmethodsfor controlling NOx emissions. Although these technologies exist, they can’t directly be used in agriculture as methods forcontrolling or mitigating NOx emissions or utilise NOx as resources for improving crop growth and yield. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind powerengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineeringnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureengineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbiofuels Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Topic(s) EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument Call for proposal H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1 Funding Scheme SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1 Coordinator CROP INTELLECT LTD Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address Riseholme college riseholme park LN2 2LG Lincoln United Kingdom See on map Region East Midlands (England) Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 21 429,00
