Advanced Filtration TEchnologies for the Recovery and Later conversion of relevant Fractions from wastewater

Advanced Filtration TEchnologies for the Recovery and Later conversion of relevant Fractions from wastewater Rome, October 5 th 2017 Domenico CENTRONE domenico@eggplant.it

Summary Project Name: Advanced Filtration TEchnologies for the Recovery and Later conversion of relevant Fractions from wastewater (AFTERLIFE) Duration: 48 months; Starting Date: September 1st, 2017 Total costs: 4.2 M (Grant: 3.9 M ) Call & Topic: BBI-2016-R01 Valorisation of the organic content of wastewater as feedstock, contributing to the renewable circular economy Official public EU web link: http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/210293_en.html

Focus Problem #1 WASTEWATER 80% of the marine pollution comes from the land, mainly wastewater High organic loading: 10-100x municipal 40-54% organic water pollutants from Food sector Food production uses 70 90 per cent of the available fresh water Problem #2 PLASTIC 299 Mt produced in 2013 10+ Mt/y into oceans 100+ years degradation More plastic than fish by 2050

Goal Food industry wastewater to make a completely biobased and biodegradable plastic (PHA Polyhydroxyalkanoates)

Project Concept AFTERLIFE process Wastewater Collection

Project Concept AFTERLIFE process Wastewater Collection Pretreatment Filtration (MF+UF+NF/RO)

Project Concept AFTERLIFE process test Purification & evaluation of value added compounds Wastewater Collection Purification Pretreatment Filtration (MF+UF+NF/RO)

Project Concept AFTERLIFE process test Purification & evaluation of value added compounds Wastewater Collection Purification Pretreatment VFA production PHA production Filtration (MF+UF+NF/RO)

Project Concept AFTERLIFE process test Purification & evaluation of value added compounds Wastewater Collection Purification Pretreatment VFA production PHA production Filtration (MF+UF+NF/RO) PHA recovery & purification Processing PHA end products Recycling

Objectives Demonstration of an integrated prototype using industrial food wastewater Applicability of bioproducts in real manufacturing environments Evaluation of techno-economic viability of the developed products and processes Estimation of socio-economic and environmental impact

Consortium: 7 EU Countries Belgium Croatia Finland Germany Italy Portugal Spain

Consortium: 15 Partners 5 RTD & Non-profit org. 10 SMEs

Consortium as a whole Sweets Cheese Citric fruit Food players Water treatment & value recovery PHA production optimization Research & development Resources optimization Process Pilot demonstration Process Engineering Plastic products Food additives End products developer Assess. & Dissemination Management Management & Exploitation

Structure (Pert Chart) STARTING TRL 3-4 WP1: Tailor wastewater pretreatment and filtration WP2: Purification of components WP4: Resource optimisation WP5: Integrated process design and MDO optimisation WP3: PHA production Phase 1: Lab Phase 2: Design and MDO WP8: Exploitation & Dissemination WP9: Management WP7: Process assessment WP6: Process Demonstration Phase 3: Prototype TARGET TRL 5

Timing (Gantt chart) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 WP1: Tailor wastewater pretreatment and filtration M1-M48 WP2: Purification of components M8-M27 WP3: PHA production M11-M36 WP4: Resource Optimisation M21-M43 WP5: Integrated process design and MDO optimisation M1-M36 WP6: demonstration M35-M48 WP7: Process assessment M6-M48 WP8: Exploitation & Dissemination M1-M48 WP9: Management M1-M48

Kick-oﬀ meeting: 11-12 September 2017 (Bari)

This project has received funding from the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 745737 Thank You Domenico CENTRONE domenico@eggplant.it