BE50-HIATUS/WATER

Reuse water From manure

Description

application and the safe use of treated effluent as irrigation and wash water in air scrubbers

Sector

A1.6Support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities

Needs/ Problem statement

Almost every year, farmers face water shortages due to drought. Therefore, they are looking for alternatives for this valuable water, such as purifying biological effluent from manure via ultra-filtration and membrane filtration into discharge water

Objective

optimization of the water cycle at agricultural level by removing the practical bottlenecks in the reuse of water from manure

Bioeconomy fields

Crop residues and perennial plantsnull

Designer crops for optimised biomass contentnull

Algae biomassnull

Waste or recycled materialx

Microbial assisted processingnull

Biorefineries x

Feedstock

Wastes

Outcomes and final product

Water

Mobility

null

Value chains

1
2
3

3 - High potential - Significant arisings of feedstocks available currently.

C Sink

1
2
3

2 - Medium potential - strong potential for carbon sequestration at the feedstock or product level only.

Intended user

Farmers

Complexity of the process

1
2
3

null

Final user

Farmerx

Foresternull

Researchernull

Advisornull

NGOnull

Training organizationnull

Processor or retailernull

Consumernull

Public Authority + LAGnull

Othernull

Economic sustainability

1
2
3

null

Social sustainability

1
2
3

null

Environmental sustainability

1
2
3

null

Added value

Very low
Low
Intermediate
High
Very high

Food/Feed = High

Equipment maintenance costs (€/year)

null

Investment cost (€)

null

Operational costs (€)

null

Return of investment (€)

null

Return of investment (Year)

null

Coherence with BBioNets

1
2
3

null

Country

BE

OG Region

BEZZExtra-Regio NUTS 2

Geographic Scope

Regional

Focus Area

FA 5A: Increasing efficiency in water use by agriculture

Key words

Circular economy, incl. waste, by-products and residues

Main source of funding

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

Period

2022-2023

Duration (months)

12

Number of partners by type

Farmer:

6

Forester:

null

Advisor:

1

Researcher:

1

NGO:

null

Processor or retailer:

null

Training orgaznization:

null

Consumer:

null

Public Authority:

null

Other:

3

Status

Completed

TRL

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

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