PHOS4YOU successfully launched by organizing the first European Nutrient Event
The INTERREG-NWE PHOS4YOU project was succesfully launched by organizing a European conference in Basel (October 18-20 2017).
The European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform ESPP…
Rethinking glasshouse horticulture with algae
Spirulina, a natural blue dye
Flemish and Dutch greenhouse horticulture have entered a transition phase. Rising costs and increasing global competition puts local farmers under pressure. The blue chain aims to re-boost…
ManuREsource conference calls for more collaboration to reach the objectives of the circular economy
From 27 until 29 November, the third edition of ManuREsource took place at Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and welcomed more than 230 participants from 28 countries.…
Biorefine
The NWE region with its high population density, intensive industrial and agricultural activity producing large amounts of residues, is an ideal testing ground for tackling these challenges. Through the networks from each of our partners and supported by…
FERTIPLUS
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FERTIPLUS assessed scenarios on amount and quality of organic wastes available within the EU to identify and map their potential for recycling nutrients to soil and plants in biochar or compost.
Production processes for compost and biochar were…
H2O-C2C
The H2O-C2C project sought to achieve a final breakthrough by further purifying dischargeable effluent using membrane filter techniques to produce water of a high quality to be used, for instance, as drinking water for pigs.
Partners
DLV InnoVision…
INEMAD
INEMAD addressed the question of which new methods and how new arrangements should be developed to restore the recycling within the specialisation context. To realize these ambitions, the leading principle of INEMAD was a triangular enlargement of…
ManureEcoMine
Technologies of proven efficacy in the wastewater treatment field were combined in several process configurations to demonstrate their technological and environmental potential at pilot scale for cow and pig manure. Anaerobic digestion (mesophilic/…
NutriCycle
NutriCycle contributed to the sustainable development of industrial livestock farming and bio-fermentation as renewable (energy) technology in Flanders. In the first place, the project had a technological approach, but attention was also paid to the…
P-Rex
Phosphorus is one essential element of life, which can neither be produced synthetically nor substituted by any other substance. Its importance as plant nutrient is emphasized by the huge amount of more than one million tons of mineral phosphorus annually…