CARTIF PROJECTS
REPLACE
Developing new methodologies to try to solve a critical environmental problem, the destruction of plastic wastes proceeding from petroleum
Description
REPLACE aims at developing new methodologies to try to solve a critical environmental problem, the destruction of plastic wastes proceeding from petroleum.
REPLACE investigates environmentally friendly thermochemical procedures less energetically demanding than common treatments. However, REPLACE’s greatest breakthrough is the revalorization of the compounds obtained from the destruction of the plastics through biotechnological procedures. By this way, highly valuable bioproducts suitable to synthesize other environmentally friendly materials will be produced.
Optimizing the combination of both technologies implies the Project’s main challenge.
Objectives
- Use plastic wastes as raw material to obtain bioproducts
- Reduce the energetic requirements of thermochemical treatments
- Reduce the treatment times and increase the efficiencies of biotechnological treatments
- Make the most of the degradation products from plastics as carbon source for the biotechnological treatments
- Know the process’ economic, environmental and social costs
Actions
- Study different process conditions to optimize both thermoche-mical and biotechnological techniques by using model compounds
- Analytical determination through several techniques: GC-MS, HPLC-UV, SEM, FTIR, DSC
- Experimenting with real samples of plastic wastes
- Coordinated actions of 4 working groups, each one of them integrated by several investigators
Expected results
- Complete degradation of plastic residues under energetically viable conditions
- Complete consumption of the compounds proceeding from the plastic degradation by microorganisms
- Optimization of the amounts of bioproducts obtained from the biotechnological treatments
- Development of a process with a negative carbon footprint
Partners:
Grants to R+D Projects developed by technological centers from Castilla y León
Total budget: 1.466.000
Contribution: 1.466.000
Start date: 01/01/2019
End date: 30/06/2020
Team
Nicolás Martín Sánchez
Division of Agrifood and Processes
Networking
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