Advances

On September 18th and 19th we received the visit of the EASME Project Advisor (Mario Lionetti), the financial expert of EASME (Maryam Ghandi) and the Neemo monitoring expert (Crtistina Vicente). These days the monitoring meeting took place, during which the...

During the past week, representatives of the LIFE LEACHLESS project visited the headquarters of the company Aquaporin in Denmark, to carry out a workshop about forward osmosis. Thanks to this workshop and the close collaboration of the project with the company...

Last May 31st the beneficiaries of the LIFE LEACHLESS LIFE LEACHLESS project received the visit of the expert in Neemo monitoring at the Cartif facilities in Boecillo, to carry out a meeting in which the evolution of the project in the last year was discussed both...

After the completion of the LIFE LEACHLESS Project Preparatory Actions and with the Energy integration analysis of individual processes Action completed, the project beneficiaries focused on defining the design of the demonstration plant (first part of Implementation...

Using the Pinch analysis method, the energy integration of the main streams of the proposed process into the LIFE LEACHLESS project has been achieved. Using this methodology, the heat exchanged between the streams has been calculated and the minimum energy required to...

At the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, technical activities of the LIFE LEACHLESS project are focusing on the design and construction of the pilot plant. Based on the activities carried out in the Preparatory Actions, the required information has been obtained...

The second workshop for children organized within the framework of the LIFE LEACHLESS project took place yesterday. On this occasion, students of Early Childhood Education and Primary Education had the opportunity to learn what not to do if we want our planet to last...

After a brief summer break, the LIFE LEACHLESS team meets today at the CARTIF facility to plan the execution of one of the main activities of the project: the design and construction of the demonstration plant. INFINITVE and TRITON, main...

Jesús M. Martín (CARTIF) presented the last week the project LIFE LEACHLESS in the  ICEPCP 2017: 19th International Conference on Environmental Pollution Control and Prevention. ICEPCP is an important interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of new...

Last week, INFINITVE personnel moved to AQUAPORIN's facility in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, to carry out small-scale forward-osmosis condensate filtration tests. The tests were successful in quality of the effluent produced and performance of the operation. The...

Yesterday, a project seminar was held in Madrid in the framework of the First Call for the Interreg V-A Spain-Portugal 2014-2020 Program (POCTEP). The seminar was addressed to the Principal Beneficiaries of the approved projects and was held at the headquarters of the...

On the 24th, representatives of NTUA and CARTIF visited, within the framework of the LIFE LEACHLESS project, three waste treatment facilities in the Athens area. The first facility was the landfill and waste treatment center of Attica, the second...

Yesterday, June 8, the kick-off meeting of the H2020 URBAN GREEN UP project took place at the CARTIF facilities. The objective of this project is to develop a strategy for the renaturalization of cities through solutions based on nature. The event was attended by...

On 31 May, TRITON representative visited the AQUAPORIN facilities in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, to plan small-scale leachate condensate filtration tests. So far, leachate evaporation tests have been carried out with the laboratory module and the collected...

Yesterday, the first workshop for children organized under the LIFE LEACHLESS project took place. On this occasion, Elementary School students from the school "La Enseñanza", Valladolid, had the opportunity to learn how to care for the environment, recycling, saving...

The installation of the evaporation-condensation system (at laboratory scale), designed in the framework of the LIFE LEACHLESS project,  has been completed. Now this facility will treat the leachate to obtain a clean condensate that will feed the forward osmosis...

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Yesterday, 18th, a networking day organized by the VITARTIS cluster took place at the Fundación CARTIF facilities, which welcomed more than 50 representatives from the Castilla y León industry. During the workshop, the LIFE LEACHLESS project was promoted...

In the framework of the preparatory actions of the LIFE LEACHLESS project, a questionnaire has been developed for leachate generating plants and another one aimed at ceramic companies in order to know key aspects that will have a great impact on the design of the...

The characterization of leachate samples from Botarell's Waste Treatment Center in Spain and the Ano-Liosia landfill in Anthens, Greece, has been carried out in the framework of the LIFE LEACHLESS project. Furthermore, thanks to the collaboration agreement signed...

The first follow-up meeting of the LIFE LEACHLESS project was held today at the Fundación CARTIF, in Boecillo, with the participation of representatives from all partners and the external monitor of NEEMO, Cristina Vicente. The general conclusions reached...

The newspaper El Mundo devotes today  in the section Innovadores, a report to the LIFE LEACHLESS, highlighting the aspect of the recovery of the sludge collected after the treatment of leachates in the manufacture of ceramic products. Click here here if you want to...

Representatives of Fundación CARTIF and INFINITVE have visited the area where the LIFE LEACHLESS project demonstration plant is planned to be installed at the Waste Treatment Center of Botarell (Tarragona). The area is adjacent to the demonstration...