Category: Product recovery

Every year farms in Europe produce more than 1.4 billion tonnes of manure which can lead to pollution of air, water and soil. The ManuREfinery project aims to minimize the environmental footprint of livestock farming by developing smart, modular, mobile, and sustainable small-scale decentralized biorefineries that convert livestock manure into novel added-value bio-based feed ingredients and fertilizers. The ManuREfinery process…

Millions of tonnes of industrial solvents are produced every year from fossil fuels and are a major environmental and health concern due to their toxicity. The SOLRESS project develops an integrated biorefinery to convert post-consumer coffee grounds and lignocellulosic materials into bio-based solvents. HYDROHM is developing an electrochemical extraction unit, which is a key process…

LUCRA is a Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) funded initiative on a mission to revolutionise biobased chemicals. Ten industrial partners and renowned research centres representing the whole value chain from feedstock to products have joined forces to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of transforming organic waste into bio-succinic acid on a pre-industrial…

HYDROHM and Pureblue Water teamed up in a CrossRoads2 Sustainable Energy project. Together, we developed and tested an electrochemical hydrolysis technology that enables cost-effective and energy-neutral decentralised water treatment. Furthermore, our technology creates the opportunity to upcycle the organic stream through fermentation, which can result in the production of valuable products such as bioplastics.

Ammonia removal is increasingly replaced by recovery. Recovery allows reuse and value creation in a local circular economy and does not result in  release of N2O as a potent greenhouse gas. In the state of the art, ammonia is released from the waste (stripping) and captured in liquid (scrubbing). The liquid is a strong acid…