📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/06/2023
End Date: 31/05/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 8,011,045 €
EU Contribution: 4,137,865 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
LIFE Phos4EU will demonstrate phosphorus recovery from sewage using the innovative ViviMag technology. Phosphorus is a key nutrient in fertilizers and therefore essential for our food production. As the EU has only limited phosphate rock reserves ,phosphorus is listed as a critical raw material by the EU. Phosphorus (P) use has to become more sustainable and should include P-recycling from secondary resources. Sewage is a phosphorus rich waste stream that has a high potential for P recovery. Until now, this potential has been underutilized and current technologies have insufficient recovery potential. The innovative route to recover phosphorus as vivianite using Vivimag technology provides for high recovery rates of phosphorus and can potentially provide for 12% of EU phosphorus needs. Furthermore, vivianite is considered to have great potential as a fertilizer, replacing current fossil mineral based fertilizers. LIFE Phos4EU is a close-to-market project and demonstrates: - Successful implementation of ViviMag technology at wwtp Nieuwveer in the Netherlands at a representative scale of 9 m3/h (50% of full capacity).
