MANUREFINERY
Smart modular mobile biorefining of manure to zero-waste maximising resource and nutrient recovery for feed and fertiliser bioingredients in rural areas
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.
OUR ROLE
MARKET ANALYSIS, BUSINESS MODELS AND EXPLOITATION FOR MANUREFINERY REPLICATION ACROSS THE EU RURAL AREAS
ENCO is the leader of WP5 “Market analysis, business models and exploitation for ManuREfinery replication across the EU rural areas”. The main objective of the WP is to propose new economically viable and environmentally sustainable business models for each bioingredient generated in ManuREfinery to be replicated across the EU rural areas and IPR strategies.
WEBSITE
www.manurefinery.eu
FUNDING PROGRAMME
HORIZON EUROPE
BUDGET
€ 7.236.512,50
PROJECT DURATION
48 months
START DATE
September 1 st, 2024