project - Research and innovation
Recovery and Utilization of Nutrients 4 Low Impact Fertilizer (Run4Life)
Recovery and Utilization of Nutrients 4 Low Impact Fertilizer (Run4Life)
Objectives
“H2020 NUTRIMAN (818470) TN Thematic Network CSA Coordination and Support Action marketing promotion”
Domestic wastewater is an important carrier of resources, especially water and nutrients – which are hardly recovered in the current centralised wastewater management systems. Run4Life demonstrates an alternative strategy for improving nutrient recovery, based on a decentralised treatment of segregated black water (toilet wastewater), grey water (other domestic wastewaters) and organic kitchen waste. Different innovative technologies are combined to achieve this goal. At 4 sites in Europe, for the first time nutrients will be recovered from domestic waste streams of several 100 dwellings. In collaboration with fertilizer producers, the resulting products will be characterised and the possibilities for their agricultural application will be determined. End users and other stakeholders are a fundamental part of this evaluation to achieve institutional, legal and social acceptance.
Objectives
“H2020 NUTRIMAN (818470) TN Thematic Network CSA Coordination and Support Action marketing promotion”
Domestic wastewater is an important carrier of resources, especially water and nutrients – which are hardly recovered in the current centralised wastewater management systems. Run4Life demonstrates an alternative strategy for improving nutrient recovery, based on a decentralised treatment of segregated black water (toilet wastewater), grey water (other domestic wastewaters) and organic kitchen waste. Different innovative technologies are combined to achieve this goal. At 4 sites in Europe, for the first time nutrients will be recovered from domestic waste streams of several 100 dwellings. In collaboration with fertilizer producers, the resulting products will be characterised and the possibilities for their agricultural application will be determined. End users and other stakeholders are a fundamental part of this evaluation to achieve institutional, legal and social acceptance.
Activities
WP1 – Project Management
WP2 – Innovations for efficient Nutrient Recovery
WP3 – Large Scale Demonstration: testing, optimisation and validation
WP4 – End-users perspective: quality and safety requirements
WP5 – Risk and Life Cycle Assessments
WP6 – Strategic Organisational and Social Innovation
WP7 – Exploitation and Market Uptake
WP8 – Communication and Dissemination for Social and Market acceptance
Activities
WP1 – Project Management
WP2 – Innovations for efficient Nutrient Recovery
WP3 – Large Scale Demonstration: testing, optimisation and validation
WP4 – End-users perspective: quality and safety requirements
WP5 – Risk and Life Cycle Assessments
WP6 – Strategic Organisational and Social Innovation
WP7 – Exploitation and Market Uptake
WP8 – Communication and Dissemination for Social and Market acceptance
Project details
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Project acronym
- Run4Life
- Agricultural sectors
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- Crops (generic)
- Other sectors
1 Practice Abstracts
Nutrients will be recovered from source-separated domestic wastewater flows and organic kitchen waste, with the purpose of applying them in afgriculture and thus closing the cycle between consumption and agriculture. Innovative wastewater treatment technologies will be employed, directed at the production of high-quality and safe fertilisers. Demonstration of the recovery technologies will take place at four different large scale sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. End users will be involved in product testing and quality validation.
Nutrients will be recovered from source-separated domestic wastewater flows and organic kitchen waste, with the purpose of applying them in afgriculture and thus closing the cycle between consumption and agriculture. Innovative wastewater treatment technologies will be employed, directed at the production of high-quality and safe fertilisers. Demonstration of the recovery technologies will take place at four different large scale sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. End users will be involved in product testing and quality validation.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Aqualia
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Project partners
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FCC AQUALIA SA Spain
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DESAH BV Netherlands, SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET Sweden
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LEAF BV Netherlands
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ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION (LEITAT) Spain
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NORDVASTRA SKANES VATTEN OCH AVLOPP AB Sweden
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UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Spain
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WATER, ENVIRONMENT AND BUSINESS FOR DEVELOPMENT SL Spain
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WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY Netherlands
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CONSORCIO DE LA ZONA FRANCA DE VIGO Spain
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ECOMOTIVE AS Norway
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ISLE UTILITIES LIMITED United Kingdom
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Clean Energy Innovative Projects Belgium
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FORFARMERS CORPORATE SERVICES BV Netherlands
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ASB GRUNLAND HELMUT AURENZ GMBH Germany.
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