LIFE Project: Improved techniques to optimize water and nutrient use in strawberry production near Doñana National Park Project The LIFE 4DOANA project focuses on demonstrating and promoting the adoption of a new on-demand decision support system (DSS) for intensive soil-based strawberry cultivation, which increases irrigation efficiency and reduces water withdrawals and nutrient …
LIFE Project: Comprehensive management of biogas from landfills for use as vehicle fuel Project The LANDFILL BIOFUEL project aims to demonstrate the technical performance of a cost-effective solution for improving biogas production and recovery from landfills. This is based on novel techniques for exploiting waste cells, along with innovative …
LIFE Project: Innovative Hybrid INTensive EXTensive Wastewater Resource Recovery in Small Communities Project LIFE INTEXT aims to develop innovative solutions based on a combination of intensive and extensive technologies (INT-EXT) to address wastewater treatment and reuse in order to address water scarcity in small communities (less than 2,000 population …
LIFE Project: Green solutions for treating groundwater contamination to meet Drinking Water Directive standards Project LIFE SPOT aims to develop a new treatment process that removes nitrates and micropollutants from contaminated groundwater and produces high-quality drinking water that meets the requirements of Directive 98/83/EC on drinking water …
LIFE Project: Desalination and denitrification of brackish groundwater for sustainable irrigation: net-zero waste and energy Project LIFE DESIROWS is a demonstration project to reduce first osmosis brine, crystallize salts, eliminate nitrates, and recover water resources. …
LIFE Project: Processing livestock waste for the production of biomethane for use in agricultural vehicles and biofertilizers. Project LIFE SMART AgroMobility focuses on the technical, economic, and environmental viability of a new model for managing livestock waste (pig slurry) through biodigestion with innovative, low-cost …
LIFE Project: Divide and Conquer: Closing the Loop on Water, Nutrient, and Resource Management for Irrigation Activities. Project LIFE CONQUER demonstrates an innovative water reclamation process based on smart nanofiltration (NF), which will split salinity and nitrates to produce nutrient-rich reclaimed water. This will be suitable for reuse in …
LIFE Project: Production of advanced biodiesel from animal waste using supercritical technologies Project The LIFE Superbiodiesel Project aims to demonstrate, at pilot plant scale, the advantages of producing biofuels from methanol under supercritical conditions using new catalytic technology. Modulating the catalytic reaction process will allow the …
LIFE Project: Green and nature-based solutions for climate-resilient waste infrastructure Project The GREEN ADAPT project plans to implement a climate adaptation system aimed at improving resilience at landfills. …
LIFE Project: Cultivating Resilience: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Greenhouses to Improve Performance and Resource Efficiency Project The LIFE-ACCLIMATE project seeks to implement and demonstrate a sustainable and resource-efficient greenhouse horticulture model as a climate change adaptation strategy, leveraging advanced technologies such as ground-based and aerial robots, Artificial …
LIFE Project: Scaling up innovative technology for the control and automation of co-digestion in WWTPs to produce green energy on demand Project The LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 project aims to demonstrate full-scale technology for the automated control of waste dosing in anaerobic digesters at WWTPs, with the aim of producing biogas on demand from sewage sludge and agri-food …
LIFE Project: Innovative cost-effective multi-barrier treatments for water reuse for agricultural irrigation Project LIFE PHOENIX will demonstrate a new flexible multi-barrier tertiary treatment system that adapts to different WWTP types and water characteristics. This new treatment will be applied in areas with high water stress in central and southern Spain and …
LIFE Project: Integrating the circular economy and biodiversity into sustainable wastewater treatment based on constructed wetlands Project LIFE RENATURWAT aims to demonstrate that reclaimed water can be obtained from WWTP effluents by combining nature-based solutions (NBS) and industrial waste to produce a high-quality water resource suitable for environmental uses, such as wetland …
LIFE Project: Guiding the integration of best practices in bio-waste recycling in Europe Project The LIFE BIOBEST project aims to identify and validate current Best Practices (BP) and management tools throughout the biowaste management chain (from generation to treatment) that allow the production of quality compost and digestate and to establish a …
LIFE Project: Intensive treatment of wastewater and conversion into useful and sustainable products: biogas, nutrients, and water. Project LIFE INFUSION aims to demonstrate the viability of a circular economy approach to treating liquid digestate from the organic fraction of urban solid waste and leachate from landfills and recovering it for use as energy, biofertilizer, and irrigation …
