Objective
The tannery problems, related to the environment are extremely important, since they involve different kind of pollution, such as those related to the air, to solid wastes of animal origin coming from hides processing and in the end to the liquid waste. The most common application of the products coming from fleshing processing is the zootechnical branch, that during the last months has faced great difficulties for the well-known events related to 'Mad Cow', that led into the refuse of the proteic hydrolizate coming from this processing. Possible outlets alternative to this waste, such as the burning, the burying, the waste disposal in burrows cannot be proposed for the high environmental impact, the scarce technological knowledges and the very high costs. The project suggested by S.I.C.IT. in cooperation with Padua University, CO.VI.A.M. ECOGEO and Laboratori Ecochimica has the aim to realize a new chemical thermal proceeding of rapid treatment on fleshing in order to obtain an effective degradation of the proteic structure and the reuse in agricultural and industrial branch of the product obtained, such as: fat for soaps branch, mixture of amino acids and peptides for fertilizers and biogas for a reuse for energetic purpose. By the attainment of these aims it would be possible to exclude completely the fleshing destination to the order kind of waste disposal keeping out hence the possible severe environmental consequences. As a result, this application could be extended to the other tannery areas in Italy and Europe or to other waste of animal origin (f.e.: those coming from slaughtering).
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36072 Chiampo
Italy