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The first energy and cost-efficient disruptive ZLD Technology for dredged material management, allowing circular economy and zero pollutionbroad

ASEC · Horizon Europe grant · 2023-03-01–2025-02-28

EC contribution

€2,458,928

Total cost

€3,512,755

Beneficiaries

1

About the data

Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01 · scheme HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF · topic HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01. CORDIS record →

Objective

Dredging is an essential activity to maintain maritime and river routes, coastal protection to flooding, among others. Every year, over 2 Bm3 of sediments are dredged around the world, 20-40% of which are highly polluted and must be treated before being disposed to landfill (as current treatment and separation technologies do not allow to cost-efficiently valorise the water and the solids from this dredged material). Water Challenge has developed and patented the first energy-efficient truly Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD+) technology able to separate 100% of dredged material into fresh water and crystalized solids in one step, without chemicals and with very low energy consumption (<20 kWh/m3).The aim of this project is to develop a pilot plant of 10 m3/day of capacity to separate and valorise the water and solids from dredged materials. This plant will be pivotal to showcase the technology and business model, before scaling it and replicating it around Europe.

Beneficiaries (1)

Organisation	Country	Role	EC contribution	SME
WATER CHALLENGE SL	ES	coordinator	€2,458,928	Yes

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