EU-Project

We are engaged in numerous EU-research projects that futher the life cycle thinking.

Projects

• SUNGATE – Next Generation Solar Fuels
  SUNGATE is a European project aimed at engineering a sustainable and cost-effective bio-hybrid technology to scale up production of solar fuel systems.  
• SUPERVAL
  SUPERVAL’s primary objective is to investigate the viability of a technology capable of transforming the treatment of post-combustion gases to unlock the potential of carbon and nitrogen components by separating and transforming them into valuable resources.
• Triple-A-COAT
  The Triple-A-COAT project aims to develop a bio-based antiviral/antimicrobial/antifungal coating platform for high traffic surfaces and textiles.
• Hyperconnected Architecture for High Cognitive Production Plants – HyperCOG June 2024
  In the HyperCOG project, 2.-0 LCA leads the life cycle assessment of the environmental, social and economic impacts of industrial digitalisation for three case studies.
• Towards a common European Climate Label for products September 2023
  The aim of this project for STOA was to evaluate the potential for an effective climate labelling framework and the preconditions for such labelling.
• Rethinking Municipal Tariff Systems to Improve Urban Waste Governance January 2023
  The aim of the LIFE-REthinkWASTE project is to provide a governance scheme for municipalities to increase waste separation, reduction and recovery rates and to simultaneously reduce the waste bills of households.
• Management of Ladle Refractory Brick Waste – E-CO-LadleBrick November 2022
  The main aims of the E-CO-LadleBrick project are to achieve an innovative waste management for worn ladle bricks in steel mills by implementing Circular Economy criteria based in a "4R model" (Reduce, Reuse, Remanufacture and Recycle)
• Integral Refractory Waste Management – LIFE 5REFRACT December 2020
  LIFE 5REFRACT aims at applying a "5R" (reduce, reuse, remanufacture, recycle, re-educate) approach within the European steel sector to reach an integral valorisation of refractory materials.
• Additive Manufacturing – HINDCON September 2019
  The aim of the work-package 6 of the HINDCON project is to perform value chain simulation and modelling with integrated LCA with life cycle data related to additive manufacturing in the construction sector.
• Water Reuse in O&G Sector – INTEGROIL May 2019
  The INTEGROIL project aims to supply and validate the first application of an integrated solution to improve the treatment of produced water and wastewater of the oil and gas (O&G) industry, as well as to produce water of enough quality to be reused, increasing the sustainability of the whole process.
• Thermal energy recovery from wastewater – THERBIOR May 2019
  This project focuses on the development, implementation and diffusion of technologies to improve energy efficiency in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) using a fully off-grid solar-assisted heat pump (SHP) system.
• DESIRE January 2018
  Developing and applying an optimal set of indicators and models to analyse and monitor the European progress towards resource efficiency.
• Nano3Bio September 2017
  The Nano3Bio project aims to develop biotechnological production systems for nanoformulated chitosans based on renewable resources and to further the introduction of these to the market to replace current chemical methods.
• Biotreat LCA December 2014
  BIOTREAT LCA focused on treatment systems for drinking water resources. The competitiveness of the BIOTREAT technologies relative to other water treatment technologies was determined with LCA.
• CREEA April 2014
  Data for the Global Resource Footprint of Nations. Carbon, water, land and materials embodied in trade and final consumption.
• FORWAST November 2009
  The objective of the FORWAST project was to forecasts the material stocks, waste amounts and related environmental impacts in EU-27 for the following 25 years under different scenarios of waste prevention, waste treatment and recycling.
• CALCAS March 2009
  CALCAS was aimed at identifying short-term, mid-term and long-term research lines on how to achieve a substantial efficacy increase in supporting sustainability decisions, going beyond the shortcomings and limitations of LCA at that time.
• Environmental Improvement Potentials of Meat and Dairy Products November 2007
  This project applies several novel elements at the same time, such as hybrid LCA, consequential modelling, rebound effects, social impacts, life cycle costs, analysis of synergies and dysergies, impact assessment with full monetarisation, temporal discounting, and policy feasibility assessment.
• Holiwast June 2007 and closed 2017
  The Holiwast Decision Support Tool was a web-based tool that allowed simultaneous comparisons of up to five stakeholder views or scenarios of municipal waste management policies.
• Stepwise EPD September 2006
  Making it easier for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to produce EPDs for their products was the focus of the Stepwise-EPD project.
• Life Cycle Based Cost-Benefit Assessment of Waste Management Options May 2006
  The study analysed municipal solid waste treatment scenarios and provided data, methodological improvements, results and strategy recommendations for the new EU member states. The recommendations were generally applicable to municipal solid waste treatment.
• CASCADE December 2004
  The purpose of this project and the resulting guideline below was to support the development, implementation and maintenance of data collection systems within environmental product life cycle assessments (LCAs) and hence improve the quality and comparability of LCA data.
• Environmental Impact of the Use of Natural Resources (EIRES) November 2004
  The aim of the study “Environmental Impact of the use of natural Resources (EIRES)” performed for the EU commission DG-JRC, IPTS was to support the development of the EU “Thematic Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources”.