Objective
Purification of sewage water generates unavoidable quantities of sludge, which encounter increasing difficulties to be accepted as a traditional fertiliser in agriculture. Since sludge is classified in EU-Directive as hazardous waste, it can no longer be exported to other regions. All wastewater clarifying companies are therefore confronted with environmentally damaging and excessively expensive sludge disposal for which the only alternatives are incineration or landfill. Transforming the sludge by natural means using a new composting technique and innovative mixing machinery into highly quality and more acceptable products will be a benefit to waste water management companies. The innovative aspects of the project are the new mixing technology, and the collaboration of public as well as private partners coming from 4 different EU member states.
The project intended to demonstrate on a pilot site how new compost materials can be economically produced on a small scale using partially mobile machinery and how it will be possible to find new local customers for these products. A further aim of the project was to establish quality control standards for this market which may allow qualified composts to be moved across EU borders. The re-use of compost will also reduce the need and production of artificial fertilisers and avoid destruction of natural sites by extraction of humus for recultivation.
The Community can benefit from this project on a number of different levels; the problem of sewage sludge is increasing in all countries and the search for an economic, environmental and transferable solution to all member states will be beneficial. In addition, finding economic techniques to solve a world-wide problem will have positive employment and social effects.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes wastewater treatment processes
- engineering and technology environmental biotechnology bioremediation compost
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
- engineering and technology environmental engineering natural resources management water management
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
9359 BLEESBRUCK
Luxembourg
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