LIFE DrainRain project has entered its validation phase with satisfactory initial results. The general objective of this project, co-financed by the European Commission under LIFE Program, is to test the treatment of runoff waters through a new integral system of permeable pavement and in-situ treatment of water for reuse. Since September 2016, the project consortium has carried out work on two main lines: laboratory tests to develop...
Read MoreNOVACELL project Research of new generations of cellulose micro and nanoparticles for use in strategic industrial products is a project of the CIEN call that began in October 2017 and will end in September 2021. The main objective of the NOVACELL project is the use of micro and nano particles of cellulose in new bioeconomy products. In more detail, the objective of reducing the environmental impact...
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Next January 9, 2019, the CETIM Technology Centre will host the presentation of the Conecta PEME project BIOCHARMB "Development of a biomass pyrolysis plant for the use of biochar in environmental applications". Its consortium includes the companies GESTÁN Medioambiental, Valora Consultores, ENSO Environmental Solutions and INTACTA Gestión Ambiental, the latter leader of the consortium. With the technological support of CETIM, the partners will develop and validate...
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These researches, financed by European Union programs Horizon2020 and LIFE, involve an investment mobilization of around € 25 million. Among the benefits for society are from reducing the importation of critical raw materials to optimizing water treatment systems. Culleredo, May 27, 2019. Since its beginnings in 2011, CETIM has collaborated, and led, international projects with objectives such as improving water quality or revalorizate by-products; as well as...
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The consortium, in which Galicia, León and northern Portugal universities and technology centres participate, will develop a biorefinery for the eco-sustainable valorisation of residual biomass from the wine sector of these regions. CETIM will investigate the obtaining of biopolymers and will analyze the technical, environmental and economic feasibility of the developed solutions. The expected results are the production of biofuels and biocomposites through fermentation processes. Culleredo, May 8,...
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Next June 20, the monitor of LIFE GREEN SEWER project will visit CETIM to evaluate the progress of this project, whose objective is focused on a new secondary wastewater treatment system based on a direct-indirect osmosis integration with a anaerobic membrane bioreactor. To this day, the water characterization activities of the effluents to be treated, the definition of the system requirements and the design of the...
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This second meeting of the international project Horizon 2020 INDIA H2O will take place from September 17 to 19 at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands). First project meeting was held at the beginning of the year in India. The 19 members of the consortium will meet to advance in the research project focused on the development of phyto and biomimetic technologies for...
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Europe depends almost 100% on imports from China, South Africa and Russia of rare earths, magnesium and metals from the platinum group. Critical raw materials are linked to a large part of the EU strategic industrial sectors, that generate more than 30 million jobs. The technological research coordinated from Galicia will be based on biorecovery from different sources, from mining waste, alumina production, magnesite calcination, catalyst production...
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On January 15, 2019, the CETIM Technological Centre will host in its facilities the presentation event of the Conecta PEME Call project MEXICAL "Advanced integral system for the valuation of by-products derived from mussel shell for the production of high value-added products" Its consortium is made up of the companies INDUTEC Ingenieros, TRESIMA, VITALMAR and Galaytec, the latter leader of the consortium. With the technological support...
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On January 9, 2019, CETIM Technology Centre will host in its facilities the presentation event of Conecta PEME project DEGRADE "DISINFECTION AND ELIMINATION OF EMERGING POLLUTANTS BY PHOTOELECTROCATALYSIS WITH UV-LED" Its consortium is formed by the companies NANOGAP, LEDISSON and INTACTA Gestión Ambiental, the latter leader of the consortium. With the technological support of CETIM and the University of Santiago de Compostela, the partners will design and...
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