Recovery and Utilization of Nutrients 4 Low Impact Fertilizer (RUN4LIFE)

Description

Run4Life embraces the Circular Economy and creates a sustainable strategy for nutrient recovery and water reuse and ensuring its market success, by integrating all key players along the value chain including end users. The main goal of Run4Life is to demonstrate a decentralised recovery of up to 100% NPK nutrients and >90% of water from separated BW, KW and GW. Run4Life goes beyond technical implementation and promotes market uptake by :

i) minimising risks with proactive mitigation,

ii) implementing new Business Models;

iii) boosting social and organisational innovation and iv) including end-user perspective

Activities: (fertiliser companies and farmers) to achieve real use of the obtained products.

• The project undertakes innovations for efficient Nutrient Recovery this done through the development of 3 innovative technolo- gies up to a readiness that allows integrating them in the demo-sites. This includes the development of improved ultra- low flush toilets (JETS), the assessment of HTAD technology for one step fertilizer production with pathogens inactivation (WU) and the demonstration of the configuration of BES for NH4 recovery from BW (Aqua).
• Large Scale Demo: optimization and validation
• End-users perspective: quality and safety requirements
• Risk and Life Cycle Assessments
• Strategic Organisational and Social innovation
• Exploitation and Market uptake