| This project intends to answer two major modern civilization challenges - growing energy demand and the pilling of huge amounts of plastic residues that are a sub-product of an industrialized society like our own, and it is included in the concept of Circular Economy where the residues may be reused to produce new raw materials. |
Project CLEAN 4G will build upon a sustainable approach to the production of methane (SNG) from CO2 and hydrogen based on renewable sources.
Development and implementation in real case applications (pilot application examples - TRL 7) of geostatistical methods for reservoir geophysics and history matching.
The AlfaGreen project has an implementation period from 1 April 2016 to 30 September 2018 with a budget allocation of 1,000,272.73. SECIL and CERENA-IST are the two entities that integrate this project, which has as a physical and conceptual basis the construction of a biorefinery from the ENERGREEN pilot plant, previously built for the production of advanced liquid biofuel from biomass / wastes for subsequent use in the energy supply of cement kilns.
| This project comprises the construction, test and optimized set-up of a system capable of generating fuel from renewable energy sources obtained from alkaline electrolysis of water using graphite electrodes without a membrane separating the generated gases. |
The present scientific proposal aims at developing a holistic assessment PSHA at long return periods, and the evaluation of associated epistemic uncertainties. This goal is to be achieved by incorporating testing and evaluation of the consistency of the different parts that are integrated into the PSHA calculation.
Development of natural heterogeneous catalysts in order to produce biodiesel.
| First and second generation biofuels include biohydrogen, biodimethyl ether, bioethanol, biodiesel, biobutanol, dimethylfuran (DMF), etc. The use of waste materials to produce these biofuels is preferred so as not compete with food sources, recycles wastes, and reduces costs. In the case of biodiesel, the type of source material (example, poultry fat versus sunflower oil) can produce different characteristics of the fuel. |
| This project aimed the interpretation of the information provided by REN for the definition of a conceptual site environmental model and the definition of a sampling plan using drilling that was accomplished in the landfill in order to obtain additional information. In addition, the information produced allowed the validation of the conceptual model and increased the sound knowledge about the environmental impact of the former ashes landfill. |
| Although the gold demand has been constantly increasing in past years, the commodity findings have been decreasing and the extraction of gold has complicated due to increasing complexity and decreasing grade of the ores. Gold mining is a chance for Europe to increase economical development, but it has challenges in eco-efficiency and extraction methods (e.g. cyanide). Thus, the novel energy and resource-efficient methods and technologies for mineral processing should be developed to concentrate selectively different gold bearing minerals. |