CARTIF PROJECTS
SUSTRA-TEC
Developed innovative technological substrates with techno-soil characteristics
Description
DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL SUSTRATES WITH SELF-FERTILIZING CAPACITY AND ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINANTS CAPTATION (SUSTRA-TEC) has developed innovative technological substrates with techno-soil characteristics, providing as a novel aspect the self-fertilizing capacity and the capture of atmospheric pollutants.
These techno-soils have been obtained by the valorization of sludge from wastewater treatment plants and other agro-food industry residues inoculated with encapsulated nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Thanks to encapsulation, these bacteria are released gradually, allowing the colonization of the substrate and an increment of microbial activity.
Objectives
- Design and develop new innovative technological substrates.
- To valorize waste from urban and industrial water treatment plants, and agri-food waste.
- Obtain new substrates with the capacity to sequestrate atmospheric pollutants and with self-fertilising capacity.
- Implementation of new bacterial encapsulation technologies in the substrate sector.
Actions
- Selection of raw materials for highest yield.
- Development of new technological substrates.
- Development and validation of an encapsulation methodology.
- Agro-environmental analysis of substrates with bacteria.
- Evaluation of self-fertilizing capacity.
Expected results
- Produce different technological substrates with suitable characteristics for the crop.
- Develop a methodology of encapsulation of edaphic bacteria and teste the stability in substrates with different edaphoclimatic conditions.
- Prove that the growth of plants in greenhouses and in test plots is higher when technosoil with bacteria is added.
Partners:
Retos Colaboración programme
RTC-2016-5043-2
CARTIF Total budget: 246,544.35 €
CARTIF Grant: 224.073,87 €
Duration: 2016-2019
Responsible
Silvia Gómez
Division of Agrifood and Processes
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