ZERO BRINE COMPLETION

January, 2022
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ZERO BRINE COMPLETION

After 4.5 years of redesigning the value and supply chain of water and minerals, the ZERO BRINE project has come to an end having successfully demonstrated the recovery of valuable resources from industrial brines. The legacy of the project remains, having generated numerous follow-up projects that will continue working in the fields of circular economy. ZERO BRINE’s findings and results have contributed to furthering a greener and cleaner means of production through policy, industry, and research. Read on to discover our final outputs!

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FINAL FORUM

Final Forum activities were held within Amsterdam International Water Week, with an expert panel on 2 November and final conference on 4 November 2021. Presentations from both events are available online. During the conference closing, Advisory Board Chairman Michiel van Haersma Buma presented a white paper highlighting the contributions of the project and outlined further actions for maintaining momentum towards a circular economy.

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VIEW WHITE PAPER

FINAL RESULTS: PILOT VIDEOS

Netherlands

Spain

Turkey

Poland

Learn the technology behind the ZERO BRINE pilots and the impacts that can be achieved! Click on the preview image to watch, or visit our pilot media kits!

DISCOVER THE PILOT MEDIA KITS

BRINE SIMULATION TOOL

ZERO BRINE has developed a software tool to help brine owners analyse treatment chains. The Remote Component Environment (RCE), developed by DLR and is freely available and can be accessed by brine owners to simulate their case studies and to evaluate the techno-economic feasibility of treatment chains in different process industries. The tools, developed in Python and Matlab, cover technologies including nanofiltration, crystallisation, and many more.

ACCESS BRINE SIMULATOR TOOL

Core Policy Brief

Industrial Emissions Policy Brief

Final updates to the ZERO BRINE policy briefs have been made following the conclusion of the pilot results. All four ZERO BRINE policy briefs including those on the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and Zero Pollution Policy Brief are available online.

VIEW POLICY BRIEFS

Latest Deliverables

Recent Publications

Check our website for the latest conference proceedings, peer-reviewed articles, and other ZERO BRINE publications.

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Trainings, workshops and more!

The final year of its activities, ZERO BRINE organised several different training sessions for industry and public authororities on moving towards a circular economy and furthering industrial symbiosis. All event presentations, video recaps are available on our website.

REWATCH AN EVENT

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RECOGNITION AT EUROMEMBRANE

ZERO BRINE partner UNIPA awarded “Best Poster” at the 2021 Euromemembrane conference in Copenhagen on “Modelling of an innovative membrane crystallizer for the production of Magnesium Hydroxide from waste brine.” The poster is based on the development of a simulation tool for the CrIEM reactor (Crystallizer with Ion Exchange Membrane) for the production of Magnesium Hydroxide from waste brines. Results of its validation in different operating conditions were shown.

Follow-up projects

The WATER-MINING project focuses on mining water and resources from desalination brines, urban and industrial wastewater streams.

The SEA4VALUE project focuses on developing and upscaling technologies to sustainably mine raw materials from brines.

The SEArcularMINE project will prototype an innovative integrated process aimed at recovering energy and critical raw materials from waste brines in Mediterranean basin saltworks.

The BRINE-MINING project focuses on improving saline wastewater management performance of coal mining activities by recovering useful and marketable materials as water and salts.

From all of us at ZERO BRINE, thank you!

ABOUT ZERO BRINE

Coordinated by TU DELFT, the innovation project ZERO BRINE 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. ZERO BRINE is funded by the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation Program and includes 20 partners from research institutes, SMEs, construction companies, and end-users from 10 countries across Europe.

Scientific Coordinator

Prof.Dr.ir. L.C. Rietveld
Delft University of Technology
Building 23, Stevinweg 1
2628 CN Delft
T. +31 15 27 84732
E. l.c.rietveld@tudelft.nl

Executive Project Coordinator
ir. J.R. Moll
Delft University of Technology
Building 23, Stevinweg 1
2628 CN Delft
T. +31 15 27 82969
E. J.R.Moll@tudelft.nl

Innovation Manager
Dr. Dimitris Xevgenos
Sealeau B.V.
High Tech Campus 1e
5656AE Eindhoven
T. +31 6 38 45 15 79
E. info@sealeau.com

Media Contact

Danielle Kutka
Project Manager
REVOLVE
Rue d’Arlon 63-67
1040 Brussels
T. +32 2 318 39 84
E. media@zerobrine.eu

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The ZERO BRINE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 730390.