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Nanomaterial FAte and Speciation in the Environment

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NanoFASE

Grant agreement ID: 646002

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 September 2015
End date

30 September 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 11 321 076,25
EU contribution

€ 9 954 475,50

Coordinated by:

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

United Kingdom

Objective

Concept: NanoFASE will deliver an integrated Exposure Assessment Framework, including methods, parameter values, model and guidance that will allow Industry to assess the full diversity of industrial nano-enabled products to a standard acceptable in regulatory registrations. Methods to assess how use phases, waste streams and environmental compartments (air, soil, water biota) act as “reactors” in modifying and transporting ENMs will be developed and used to derive parameter values. Our nanospecific models will be integrated with the existing multi-media fate model SimpleBox4Nano for use in EUSES and also develop into a flexible multi-media model for risk assessment at different scales and complexities. Information on release form, transformation and transport processes for product relevant ENMs will allow grouping into Functional Fate Groups according to their “most probable” fate pathways as a contribution to safe-by-design based on fate.

Methodology: Inventories of material release forms along the product value chain are established. We then study how released ENMs transform from initial reactive states to modified forms with lower energy states in which nanospecific properties may be lost. Transport studies assess material fluxes within/between compartments. The experimental work underpins models describing ENM transformation and transport. Open access is provided to the models suitable for incorporation into existing exposure assessment tools (e.g. SimpleBox4Nano) and for more detailed assessment. Framework completeness is validated by case studies.

Impact: Identified links between ENM material properties and fate outcome (e.g. safe-by-design). Improved representation of nanospecific processes in existing key fate and exposure assessment tools (e.g. SimpleBox4Nano in EUSES). Contribution to standardization. GIS framework to support predictive assessment, catchment and point source management of ENM releases.

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Programme(s)

H2020-EU.2.1.2.2. - Ensuring the safe and sustainable development and application of nanotechnologies

Topic(s)

NMP-28-2014 - Assessment of environmental fate of nanomaterials

Call for proposal

H2020-NMP-2014-two-stage

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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinator

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Address

Polaris House North Star Avenue
Sn2 1fl Swindon

United Kingdom

Activity type

Research Organisations

EU Contribution

€ 1 674 093,54

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NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

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Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Sn2 1eu Swindon Wiltshire

United Kingdom

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THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 652 589,41

ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 520 701,25

EIDGENOESSISCHE ANSTALT FUER WASSERVERSORGUNG ABWASSERREINIGUNG UND GEWAESSERSCHUTZ

Switzerland

INSTITUT FUR ENERGIE UND UMWELTTECHNIK EV - IUTA

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 478 750

GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 274 568,06

UNIVERSITAT WIEN

Austria

EU Contribution

€ 684 201

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 456 417,50

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 321 893,75

EUROPEAN VIRTUAL INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT EU VRI EWIV

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 150 000

PINTURAS HEMPEL SA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 159 750

PROMETHEAN PARTICLES LTD

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 244 000

TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V LIBERCI

Czechia

EU Contribution

€ 100 000

FCC CONSTRUCCION SA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 111 500

PRZEDSIEBIORSTWO AMEPOX SP ZOO

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 100 125

INOTEX SPOL SRO

Czechia

EU Contribution

€ 123 750

APPLIED NANOPARTICLES SL

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 163 366,65

EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT

Switzerland

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT ET DES RISQUES INERIS

France

EU Contribution

€ 224 423,75

ETSS AG

Switzerland

ETSS, GOTTSCHALK & CO. KOLLEKTIVGESELLSCHAFT

Switzerland

NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 365 002,50

RIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 324 890

UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE

Switzerland

EU Contribution

€ 24 375

MALVERN PANALYTICAL LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 250 000

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 315 445

UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI

Slovenia

EU Contribution

€ 244 200

STICHTING VU

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 154 942,50

UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 298 062,50

STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 325 668,75

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 121 068,75

PENSOFT PUBLISHERS

Bulgaria

EU Contribution

€ 169 750

INSTITUT SYMLOG

France

EU Contribution

€ 158 850

GBP CONSULTING LTD

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 56 928,24

PERKINELMER SVERIGE AB

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 256 265,35

SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET

Sweden

EU Contribution

€ 386 397

BIOMAX INFORMATICS AG

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 62 500

Project information

NanoFASE

Grant agreement ID: 646002

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 September 2015
End date

30 September 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 11 321 076,25
EU contribution

€ 9 954 475,50

Coordinated by:

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

United Kingdom

Project information

NanoFASE

Grant agreement ID: 646002

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 September 2015
End date

30 September 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 11 321 076,25
EU contribution

€ 9 954 475,50

Coordinated by:

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

United Kingdom

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NanoFASE (Nanomaterial FAte and Speciation in the Environment)

Reporting period: 2015-09-01 to 2016-08-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The overarching objective of NanoFASE is to deliver an integrated Exposure Assessment Framework of models and characterisation protocols that will allow all stakeholders to assess the full diversity of industrial nano-enabled products to a standard that; i) is acceptable in regulatory registrations, ii) allows industry a cost-effective product-to-market process, and iii) delivers the understanding at all levels to underpin public and consumer confidence.
NanoFASE will ensure the Framework is delivered in a form that supports both the regulatory and technical guidance developments needed, via direct and continuous industrial and regulator stakeholder engagement and dialogue, throughout the project lifetime. Through this emphasis on stakeholder engagement and input to the Framework development process, NanoFASE will develop models and methods that are ideally positioned for incorporation into current mainstream chemical assessment tools, policy and regulation (e.g. EUSES & REACH). We will provide the underpinning science to enable the state of the art in ENM Fate and exposure assessment to move towards a level at least comparable with that for conventional chemicals

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

"The detailed objectives to be delivered by NanoFASE to achieve this shift in the state of the art are:
1. Enabling “form-specific” release modelling, by development of detailed understanding of i) product-type and product-use based release forms; and ii) release pathways of ENMs across ENM–enabled product chains (i.e. manufacturing, accidents, weathering, use, recycling and waste management) (WPs 4,5).
In the first 12months of the project this objective has been addressed through the following actions:
• Preliminary design of the structure of the emission database containing inventory descriptors.
• Estimations of European and regional estimates of production of NMs, release rates from products and waste treatment processes).
• Some experiments on environmental release have been already designed in collaboration with the industrial partners in the consortium.
2. Optimising current, routine “clean media” methods for ENM characterisation to deliver repeatable and reproducible results in environmentally relevant “complex” matrices. These protocols will provide practical methods to support future ENM exposure prediction and monitoring (WPs 3,6,7,8,9). We will continue to impart such state-of-the-art knowledge on metrology and standardisation issues into the international harmonisation and regulation efforts through exploiting consortium links with the OECD, ISO and CEN, via already engaged partners and our Advisory Board (WP10,11).
Preliminary work has been undertaken by some partners for their individual methods to date. A more systematic structure for evaluation, and a set of agreed targets against which to evaluate the different methods in terms of their transition from TRL3 to TRL4 will be agreed early in the second reporting period.
3. Developing a catalogue of process-informed compartment models, to describe how the distributions/populations of ENM forms entering all key waste management or environmental compartments transform in time (WPs 5,6,7,8,9).
Experimental platforms for wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and solid waste incineration experiments have been prepared to allow studies on transformation processes in these waste stream reactors. Coating exchange and degradations experiments are underway Preparations for the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and solid waste incineration experiments were performed and are now ready so the experiments can be conducted. The coating exchange and degradation experiments have commenced.
A review paper on ""Emissions and Possible Environmental Implication of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENM) in the Atmosphere"" has been prepared. Test setup has been built to study airborne ENMS and the first results have been obtained on the Emission of ENM from nano automotive products during road transport.
For soil compartment processes the first year has mainly been used for setting strategies: What are the dominant processes to model, how to model these, how to assess the required model parameters experimentally, and what spatial study areas will we model geographically. This strategy is now finished and models, protocols are being developed assessed for their suitability to inform ENM transformation and transport processes
For Environmental behaviour of ENM in waters and sediments (WP8) alignment of modelling and experimental approaches for ENMs in surface waters with the NanofASE model system (WP2). A multidimensional parameter testing matrix has been establish designed to cover the most relevant parameters affecting the ENM fate in surface waters within realistic ranges for European surface waters.
In WP9 initial experiments to quantify and parameterise the uptake of ENM along the different stage of accumulation in different food webs and biota are underway
4. Working closely with stakeholders to develop a fate and exposure assessment framework (WP1) comprising validated SOPs, product value chain and waste management release modules (WP4,5), parameterised transformati"

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Activities towards the maximisation of the impacts of NanoFASE described in the description of action (section 2) is progressing well. While demonstrable impacts of our work are likely to occur in the latter half of the project (and beyond), early initiatives have been undertaken by NanoFASE to establish routes for effective engagement with stakeholders from a range of sectors.

Active presence and active listening is the key to success in avoiding scientific overlaps and understanding the needs of stakeholder groups. NanoFASE partners are actively involved in stakeholder interactions relevant to their specific fields. Partners have been both present and proactive in the research field, both building NanoFASE project awareness and gaining awareness of completing, ongoing and upcoming research projects (including sister EU cluster projects and overseas initiatives).

Schematic of the Exposure Assessment Framework being developed in NanoFASE

Project information

NanoFASE

Grant agreement ID: 646002

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 September 2015
End date

30 September 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 11 321 076,25
EU contribution

€ 9 954 475,50

Coordinated by:

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Project information

NanoFASE

Grant agreement ID: 646002

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 September 2015
End date

30 September 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 11 321 076,25
EU contribution

€ 9 954 475,50

Coordinated by:

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

United Kingdom

Project information

NanoFASE

Grant agreement ID: 646002

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 September 2015
End date

30 September 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.2.2.

Overall budget:

€ 11 321 076,25
EU contribution

€ 9 954 475,50

Coordinated by:

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

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