MANUREFINERY

Smart modular mobile biorefining of manure to zero-waste maximising resource and nutrient recovery for feed and fertiliser bioingredients in rural areas

Project details

Type of project: Innovation Action - Demonstration
Project focus: Food, feed & cosmetics
Feedstock origin: Organic waste
Feedstock type: Crop residues

Project period: 1 September 2024 - 31 August 2028
Status: In progress
CBE JU Contribution: € 7 236 512,50
Call identifier: HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023

Summary

While livestock is an extremely important activity for the European rural economy, it has a significant environmental impact due to the billion tonnes of manure produced annually.

MANUREFINERY will develop a smart, modular, mobile, and sustainable small-scale decentralised biorefinery that converts livestock manure into bio-based feed and fertiliser with the aim to improve the use of manure and control NH3 emissions. The project will create seven new value chains in the livestock sector, producing seven bioingredients from any type of manure.

The MANUREFINERY solution has a high scalability and replicability potential through:

Advanced thermo- and bio-chemical modular and mobile feedstock conversion units.
Digital twin and data science for multicriteria decision-making and process optimisation, upscaling and replicability.
Economic, social, environmental sustainability and circularity assessment framework.
Strategies to boost the engagement of livestock stakeholders and enhance social acceptance of the solution.
New sustainable and replicable business models for income diversification in the livestock sector.

MANUREFINERY will run TRL 6-7 level demonstrations in two pig farms in Romania and Spain, a cow farm in Slovenia and a poultry farm in Romania, thus promoting sustainable bioeconomy in these countries.

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Project coordination

INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON ZARAGOZA, Spain

Consortium

KMETIJSKI INSTITUT SLOVENIJE - AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA Ljubljana, Slovenia
GUASCOR ENERGY R&D SA VITORIA GASTEIZ, Spain
UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID VALLADOLID, Spain
WAGRALIM Gosselies, Belgium
UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA ZARAGOZA, Spain
UNIVERSITEIT GENT GENT, Belgium
DETRICON Merelbeke, Belgium
UNION EUROPEENNE DU COMMERCE DU BETAIL ET DE LA VIANDE CAMBRAI, France
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE Florence, Italy
TECHNOLOGIES VIO - ENERGEIAS IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUCHIKI ETAIREIA THESSALONIKI, Greece
COMPANIA GENERAL DE COMPRAS AGROPECUARIAS SLU LLEIDA, Spain
COLSEN, ADVIESBURO VOOR MILIEUTECHNIEK BV Hulst, Netherlands
SYSPRO AUTOMATION SL NIGRAN, Spain
FERTINAGRO BIOTECH SL TERUEL, Spain
HYDROHM Nazareth, Belgium
AGROVALLFARM, SLU BARCELONA, Spain
BIOEAST HUB CR, Z. U. PRAHA 5, Czechia
INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARI ECONOMICE COSTIN C KIRITESCU BUCURESTI, Romania
ENCO SRL NAPOLI, Italy
DENVER COM SRL BUCURESTI, Romania
CELIGNIS LIMITED Limerick, Ireland
INTERPROD INVEST SRL TUNARI ILFOV, Romania