Objective
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and -furans (PCDD/Fs) are attracting a lot of concern among people because of their environmental persistence, their tendency to bioaccumulate through the food chain and their toxicity. As sewage sludges which are contaminated by PCDD/F are used as fertilizers in agriculture, horticulture or forestry it is recommended to regulate their addition to soils.
In some European countries application of sewage sludges to agricultural land is now limited for the amounts of heavy metals and it is likely that their addition will also be restricted on the basis of their PCDD/F content. The objective of the project is the certification of a sewage sludge sample which will then be useful to analytical laboratories involved in PCDD/F analysis in that type of matrix.
A candidate sewage sludge has been selected and initial contaminant analyses have been performed in order to evaluate the concentration of organic and inorganic contaminants. The preparation of the sludge for bottling is now under way and it is expected that homogeneity and stability control will start within two months.
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
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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Coordinator
69362 LYON
France
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