We are re -designing the value and supply chain of water and minerals
ZERO BRINE
Is a four-year Innovation Action (IA) financed by the European Commission and coordinated by TU Delft. It runs under the collaboration of 22 partners from research institutes, SMEs, construction companies and end-users from 10 countries.
For more details on partners and budget, visit CORDIS.
Main Objective
Aiming to ‘close the loop’ and improve the environmental impact of industrial production, the goal of Zero Brine is to prove that minerals, such as magnesium and clean water, can be recovered from industrial processes to then be reused in other industries. It is a circular economy approach based on the recovery of resources from industrial wastewater. In addition, the development of the necessary technological solutions and business models to reach this goal will facilitate the implementation of the Circular Economy package and the SPIRE Roadmap.
The Outcome
Currently, the recovered water and minerals of sufficient purity and quality for good market value are being tested at the demonstration project near the Rotterdam Port in the Netherlands and in 3 other pilot projects in Spain, Poland and Turkey.
Industrial Wastewater
Resource Recovery
Circular Economy
What is Zero Brine
Coordinated by TU Delft, ZERO BRINE – ‘Re-designing the value and supply chain of water and minerals: A circular economy approach for the recovery of resources from saline impaired effluent generated by process industries’ advances circular economy business model solutions to reduce industrial saline wastewater streams by recovering and reusing the minerals and water from the brine in other industries, thus ‘closing the loop’ and improving the environmental impacts of production. ZERO BRINE is a 4-year Innovation Action (IA) financed by the European Commission that provides massive potential to replicate and deploy circular economy solutions in the field of industrial wastewater treatment. ZERO BRINE includes 22 partners from research institutes, SMEs, construction companies, and end-users from 10 countries. ZERO BRINE integrates innovative technologies to recover water and minerals of sufficient purity and quality for good market value and is testing them at the demonstration project near Rotterdam Port, Netherlands, and 3 other pilot projects in Spain, Poland and Turkey.
Main Objective
The objective of ZERO BRINE is to prove that minerals, such as magnesium, and clean water can be recuperated from industrial processes for reuse in other industries, thus facilitating the implementation of the Circular Economy package and the SPIRE Roadmap by developing the technological solutions and business models for wastewater/brine resource recovery.