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Agromining of strategic metals from contaminated matrices – AGROMINE
AGROMINE aims at building a chain of process to recover strategic metals from secondary resources, to produce commercially valuable compounds. It combines agromining and hydrometallurgy. Ni and Co are present in natural ultramafic soils, mining sterile heaps and wastes from several industrial sector
FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL IMAGING OF VOLCANOES WITH COSMIC RAYS – DIAPHANE
Low-energy active volcanoes are places of attraction that can be highly risky. Several events, such as the eruption of the Japanese volcano Ontake in September 2014, have recently shown that «peaceful« volcanoes can be the scene of very violent phenomena that can kill dozens of tourists. Because of
Lab-On-Valve system for shipboard heavy metals measurement – Lab-on-Ship
The European Union has defined a series of measures to achieve good chemical and ecological status of continental and marine waters. These include the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC and Directive 2008/56/EC). To assess the status of
Impact of mixing processes on biochemical reactions in terrestrial environments – subsurface mixing and reaction
As it flows through rocks, from its infiltration in the soil to its seepage in springs, rivers, lacs or the ocean, the chemistry of water evolves through a series of biogeochemicalt ransformations. Recently infiltrated water mixes with the resident water, creating mixing fronts (regions of chemical
Hierarchically porous membranes for electrochemical ion transfer sensors – HYPERION
Knowledge about environmental safety is an increasing requirement from stakeholders ranging from the general public, the medical community and environmental agencies. Monitoring programmes of key resources such as water is essential as its contamination by pollutants threatens the health and the wel
New membranes and tools for a better understanding, modelling and control of pore wetting in membrane distillation for desalination – WETMEM
Desalination is the major alternative for access to drinking water for populations of coastal or delta areas, one of the challenges of the XXI century. Membrane distillation (MD) is a breakthrough technology that is more sustainable than reverse osmosis: it reduces the volumes of discharges and loss
Solidification and stabilisation for sustainable management of problematic soils – GeoStab
With the rapid economic and social development in the industrialised and developing countries, these communities are increasingly at the forefront of most pressing challenges. Along with the many social and economic benefits of urbanisation comes a plethora of construction and environmental problems
Next Generation of Wastewater Treatment Plants: Optimization of Treatment Performance through Online Monitoring of Holistic Sludge Properties – NEXT
The sludge is a by-product of the wastewater treatment. The sustainable management of this sludge is one of the major challenges of the 21st century: the total production of potential dry matter if all wastewaters produced on earth was treated is estimated at more than 80 Mt. In addition, the costs
Mobile Nitrogenous Gas Sensor for Air Quality, Breeding, and Farming applications – M3GA
The control of N2O and NH3 emissions from agriculture is becoming a great challenge for the next years: in fact in France, agriculture and farming account for more than 90% of the N2O and NH3 emissions1. However, even if the agricultural R&D sector is presently asking for more adapted measurement to
Sustainable microalgal production by recycling phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewaters : toward a next generation of sewage treatment plant – Phycover
The overall objective of the PHYCOVER project was to develop a process involving microalgae to reduce the energy cost of sanitation and demonstrate the potential for digestate valorisation by high value-added microalgae. Microalgae culture processes in open raceways, continuously fed by real urban
Hybrid process for continuous wastewater treatment: coupling of heterogeneous Sono-Photo-Fenton reaction with membrane filtration – SOFENcoMEM
Environmental and health concerns are driving the wastewater treatment to come up with advanced technologies. Current research on possible treatments for waters polluted by biorecalcitrant and/or toxic compounds is moving towards a coupling of processes, either traditional or more innovative. In thi