In December 2025, the LUCRA project partners gathered in Ghent for the 6th
consortium meeting, hosted by the University of Ghent, HYDROHM, and Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP). Site visits were organised to CAPTURE and BBEPP, where HYDROHM’s lab-scale electrochemical extraction unit is installed.  

The LUCRA project is entering its scale-up phase, in which all technologies will be integrated and validated at demo-scale. The electrochemical extraction unit developed by HYDROHM has now been installed at the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP). The system was successfully integrated and connected to the 150 L bioreactor and the ceramic cell recycle unit.

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HYDROHM is proud to partner in the European SOLRESS project, funded under the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU). This ambitious initiative aims to develop an innovative biorefinery system that transforms coffee waste and wood residues into widely used, sustainable solvents.

The project officially launched in September with a kick-off meeting hosted by AIMPLAS in Valencia, bringing together all 17 consortium partners to align on goals and set the stage for collaboration.

The LUCRA consortium got together in Chania on the wonderful island of Crete for their 5^th project meeting. To kick things off, we participated in a workshop hosted by the local waste management company DEDISA and the Chania municipality. This was followed by detailed discussions between the project partners to report on the progress made in the past few months, and to align the work for the coming months, in which HYDROHM will play a major role in upscaling the electrochemical extraction process that was developed in the lab.

In the middle of January, the EU Project LUCRA partners gathered in Birmingham for the 4th consortium meeting, hosted by project partner iNeuvo Ltd. The meeting served as a platform to update partners on the progress of the different work packages and to discuss the next steps.

We commissioned a mobile URIDIS unit in a demonstration container that includes a toilet, urinal and shower. Next to our system that will process the collected urine, a greywater recycling technology will provide treated water as flush water for the toilets. The demonstration system will be showcased on regattas across Italy and France. 

HYDROHM is proud to join the CAPTURE initiative, a multidisciplinary platform that wants to deliver a disruptive contribution to the circular economy by bridging academia and industry. Within CAPTURE we find likeminded partners to accelerate technology development and be at the forefront of innovation.

We received the award for best flash presentation on the 11th conference of the UK wastewater network, organised by Cranfield university on the 22nd of November 2023 and sponsored by the IWA UK Committee.