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The PHIGO consortium covers most EU regions plus Turkey and has good cooperation experiences from an ongoing ERA-MIN Project “DEASPHOR”. The PHIGO project is in fact a result of the tight cooperation between the partners in the DEASPHOR project. Short description of the consortium partners expertise and activities are list below:
Swerim is the coordinator of PHIGO project. Swerim is a global leading metallurgical research institute in Sweden with extensive experiences in high temperature metallurgical and recycling processes and has extensive experiences in EU research programs including three ERA-MIN projects. Swerim conducts research for resource-efficient and sustainable industry with a great industrial knowledge and experiences of how research results can be translated into practical industrial applications. Swerim will lead this project and conduct research activities focus on design flowsheet for P- recovery from ashes and also thermal extraction of P from enriched P-ashes materials.
EGE University (UEGE) is one of top public Universities in Turkey. The research team in the project has high expertise for combustion and incineration technology and has pilot test Fluidized Bed facilities. UEGE will lead the sampling and optimization of the fluidized bed process in close collaboration with industrial partners from Turkey. Their pilot FB will be used to optimize the operational process of biowaste incineration with further improvement aiming for efficient production of P-rich ashes.
University of Porto (UP) is associated partner in this project. UP is one of largest Universities in Portugal and the research team in PHIGO project will assist in characterization of feedstock and products in collaboration with project partners.
Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB) is the most important technical university in Romania and the research team has extensive experiences on using microwave heating technique in thermal treatment of different types of materials. UPB team will lead the planned research activities focus on P extraction using microwave. Beside the major role, UPB will collaborate with project partners in characterization, product evaluation, and sustainability assessment.
Central Mining Institute (GIG) is one of leading research institutes in Poland with more than 95 years of experience in research and development working for industrial enterprises of various industries including, to a large extent, for the mining industry, environment, and water supply. In PHIGO project, GIG is focusing on evaluation of the processes, main products as well as byproducts. Various fertilizing compositions for safe plant production will be developed beside feasibility of using byproducts for potential applications.
PROGEO is dedicated company with many years of experience in the field of geology, hydrology, surface protection and environmental protection. In PHIGO project PROGEO is working in close collaboration with GIG and will be responsible for carrying out field tests.
University of Brescia (UNIBS) is associated partner in PHIGO project. UNIBS is one of the top Public Universities in Italy and will contribute to the overall sustainability assessment including CO2 footprint. UNIBS has developed a new sustainability assessment, that was already used to compare available methods to recover phosphorus. The proposed approach to evaluate the sustainability of the PHIGO processes has the advantage that can be applied also to technologies developed only at laboratory scale. This pre-screening method will be fundamental to address future Life Cycle Assessment studies with the aim to industrially transfer the technologies.
The PHIGO partners are all active in scientific collaboration in international forums. The existing networks and contacts of individual participants outside this consortium will strengthen the project. The project partners will co-operate closely with international expert groups through the European Innovation partnership on Raw Material Commitments. Interaction with these EU-projects and networks with European innovative organizations in materials recovery and recycling ensures maximization of the EU resources in the mineral and metallurgical processing areas.
Financers
PHIGO is EU project funded by ERA.MIN3 in collaboration with national funding agencies: Vinnova (Sweden), TUBITAK (Turkey), NCBR (Poland), and UEFISCDI (Romania) in addition to research support from UP (Portugal) and UNIBS (Italy) and materials support from several sites in Turkey (e.g., Gures, INEVEA, Izmir municipality, Bepyi, H29).