Project description
Innovative systems for urban biowaste process
Modern and sustainable methods aiming at the recovery of bio-urban waste require the replacement of traditional linear waste management with new production chains of biomaterials. This will result in a new business model. The EU-funded SCALIBUR project will form a partnership of end users to transform urban biowaste into value-added biomaterial products. The project will be carried out in the municipalities of Madrid (Spain), Albano Laziale (Italy) and Kozani (Greece). The team will perform an integrated study of the quality, logistics and management plans for municipal solid waste (MSW) and urban sewage sludge. SCALIBUR will introduce innovative systems and technologies and propose the transformation of waste from hotels, restaurants and catering (HORECA waste) into proteins, lipids and chitin from insect rearing and the organic part of MSW into biopesticides and bioplastics.
Objective
SCALIBUR creates a holistic consortium to cut urban biowaste and replace it with a new production chain of biomaterials, forming a partnership of end users to recover and transform biowaste from three municipalities, namely Madrid (ES), Albano (IT) and Kozani (EL), into value added products. During SCALIBUR a complete study of the quality, logistics and management schemes for municipal solid waste (MSW) and urban sewage sludge (USS) will be performed, to integrate innovative systems and technologies and obtain high-value biobased products. In SCALIBUR, HORECA waste will be transformed to proteins, lipids and chitin from insect rearing, while the organic fraction of MSW will generate biopesticides and bioplastics by high-solid enzymatic hydrolysis followed by fermentation. The resulting biogas from MSW and USS will be upgraded by bioelectrochemical treatment to produce commodity chemicals and bioplastics, such as PHBV. By cutting traditional linear waste management, new business models are created for the resulting circular value chains, applying a sustainable approach to generate new activities and benefits. These new profit sources will be created from a baseline analysis of existing waste management data and business models for each municipality, generating social innovation and favouring the adaptation and uptake of new opportunities along the entire urban value cycle. Continuous tests and development along SCALIBUR will create and fine tune new business models based on innovative processes, and feedback will be obtained from all stakeholders, in order to improve the definition, performance and integration of value, to minimize waste and maximize its benefit. With social engagement strategies, key communities will participate in all aspects of the new value creation, calibrating the returns of the project both for the generation of jobs and improved urban welfare, such as reducing the dependence from outside materials and the environmental impacts.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste management
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculeslipids
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbioplastics
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentation
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46980 Paterna
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Participants (26)
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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38302 Wolfenbuttel
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31621 Sarriguren
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50100 Kozani
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501 00 KOZANI
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42107 Wuppertal
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CV1 2TT Coventry
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08007 Barcelona
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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3439 NJ Nieuwegein
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3972 WV Driebergen
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1031 Budapest
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42122 Reggio Emilia
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00186 Roma
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221 00 Lund
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28014 Madrid
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28100 Novara
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9031 Drongen
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28016 Madrid
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709 00 Ostrava
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41121 Modena
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08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT
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8911 MA Leeuwarden
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4836 AA Breda
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6708 PW Wageningen
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28016 Madrid
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