June 2024 - Regionales Phosphor-Recycling

Filming at KlimaPhoNds in Clausthal

13. June 202423. August 2024

Filming at KlimaPhoNds in Clausthal

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Close the penultimate flap: The TransPhoR team and the Hupp-Dobusch team travelled to Clausthal in beautiful Lower Saxony on 11 June to present the RePhoR joint project KlimaPhoNds. Prof. Dr. Michael Sievers and Rene Schumann answered all our questions about the project and explained the processes and objectives of the project. The KlimaPhoNds project is coordinated by the CUTEC research centre at Clausthal University of Technology. We would like to thank the entire local team for their great and professional cooperation!

As part of the BMBF funding programme RePhoR (Regional Phosphorus Recycling), the TransPhoR project is producing a total of seven short films about the joint projects. The films provide a lively insight into the different approaches of the projects.

KlimaPhoNds pursues a decentralized phosphate extraction in wastewater treatment plants, and based on this, a centralized refinement of the phosphate precipitation products to high-quality phosphoric acid, ammonia water and magnesium chloride. The climate neutrality is achieved by a nearly heat-neutral drying process with fluidized bed evaporation drying. The result is a fully dried, low-phosphate sewage sludge that can be recycled without residue and used in the cement industry for material and energy generation. A prerequisite for enough P-depletion in the sewage sludge is an optimized bio-P-elimination at the sewage treatment plant. In the first of two phases, the bio-P elimination at the Northeim wastewater treatment plant is maximized. If enough Bio-P fixation is successfully demonstrated, phase 2 will demonstrate the processing of the precipitation products to different raw materials, the almost heat-neutral drying and the utilization of dry sewage sludge as fuel and raw material on a technical scale.

More information can be found on the RePhoR homepage https://www.bmbf-rephor.de/en/joint-projects/klimaphonds/ or on the project homepage https://www.klimaphonds.de/.

RePhoR joint project DreiSATS short film released

3. June 202411. June 2024

RePhoR joint project DreiSATS short film released

The first of a total of seven short films about the RePhoR joint projects has been released. Filming for the RePhoR collaborative projects started on 12 December last year in Markranstädt at the Pontes Pabuli pilot plant on the site of Veolia Klärschlammverwertung Deutschland GmbH and at the incineration plant of CARBOTECHNIK Energiesysteme GmbH in Magdeburg.

The short film about the DreiSATS joint project has now been completed and published.

The aim of the DreiSATS project is the practical testing and demonstration of an innovative, economically and technically feasible process chain for decentralised, thermal sewage sludge utilisation with phosphorus recycling and product utilisation for the model region “Central German Triangle”. The short films are planned, produced and edited in close cooperation with the joint projects. They are intended to provide a lively insight into the pilot plants and the work of the joint projects and will be published gradually over the coming weeks on the RePhoR homepage and the YouTube channel.

Inauguration of the demonstration plant of the RePhoR joint project AMPHORE in Bottrop and release of the AMPHORE short film

3. June 202411. June 2024

Inauguration of the demonstration plant of the RePhoR joint project AMPHORE in Bot-trop and release of the AMPHORE short film

Inauguration of the demonstration plant (f.l.t.r.): Carolin Fieback (Vorständin Personal, Verwaltung, Soziales Ruhrverband) / Prof. Dr. Norbert Jardin (Vorstands-vorsitzender Ruhrverband/Leadpartner AMPHORE) / Volker Kraska (Vorstand LINEG) / Ingo Noppen (Vorstand Wupperverband) / Thomas Kufen (Oberbürgermeister Stadt Essen), Oliver Krischer (Minister für Umwelt, Nach-haltigkeit und Verkehr NRW) / Judith Pirscher (Staatssekretärin Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) / Josef Hovenjürgen (Staatssekretär im Ministerium Heimat, Kommunales, Bau und Digitalisierung NRW) / Dr. Frank Dudda (Oberbürgermeister Stadt Herne) / Dr. Dennis Blöhse (Leitung Planung u. Betrieb PhosRec), Dr. Yvonne Schneider (Geschäftsführung PhosRec) / Dr. Frank Obenaus (Vorstandsmitglied Wassermanagement u. Technik Emschergenossenschaft / Lippeverband) / Prof. Dr. Torsten Frehmann (Geschäftsführung PhosRec) / Prof. Dr. Uli Paetzel (Vorstandsvorsitzender Emschergenossenschaft / Lippeverband). © Kirsten Neumann / PhosRec GmbH

The first RePhoR plant was officially inaugurated in Bottrop on May 2nd, with high-ranking visitors including BMBF State Secretary Judith Pirscher. In the meantime, the short film of the joint project has been completed and released.

BMBF State Secretary Judith Pirscher emphasised the importance of the project on the way to sustainable resource use. Among those present were Oliver Krischer, Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; Bernd Tischler, Mayor of the City of Bottrop; Thomas Kufen, Chairman of the Association Council of the Ruhrverband; Dr Frank Dudda, Chairman of the Association Council of the Emschergenossenschaft; Bodo Klimpel, Chairman of the Association Council of the Lippeverband; Prof. Dr Uli Paetzel, Chairman of the Association Council of the Emschergenossenschaft and the Lippeverband; Dr Frank Obenaus, Technical Director of the Emschergenossenschaft and the Lippeverband. Dr Uli Paetzel, Chairman of the Management Board of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband; Dr Frank Obenaus, Technical Director of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband; Prof. Dr Norbert Jardin, Chairman of the Management Board of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband. Frank Obenaus, Technical Director of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband; Prof. Dr Norbert Jardin, Chairman of the Board of Management of Ruhrverband; Ingo Noppen, Director of Wupperverband; Volker Kraska, Director of Linksniederrheinische Entwässerungsgenossenschaft; Dr Yvonne Schneider, Managing Director of PhosRec Phosphor-Recycling GmbH and Prof. Dr Torsten Frehmann, Managing Director of PhosRec Phosphor-Recycling GmbH. The press release of the Emschergenossenschaft Lippeverband can be found under the following link: https://www.eglv.de/medien/phosphor-recycling-aus-abwasser/

Just in time for the inauguration of the demonstration plant, the short film on the AMPHORE joint project, which was shot in March, was also completed and released. It now provides an insight into the project content at the following link:

The €6.7 million plant is part of the AMPHORE research project. It demonstrates the recycling of phosphorus from sewage sludge ash, an important step towards overcoming the limited availability of this raw material. The demonstration plant, built by PhosRec GmbH, has a capacity of 1,000 tonnes of ash per year and will be in operation for the next two years to test various operating conditions. This is the first time the PARFORCE® technology has been used on an industrial scale. As well as meeting legal requirements, the plant will help to close the nutrient cycle in the EU.

In the AMPHORE joint project, five water boards in North Rhine-Westphalia cooperate with the support of research partners, engineering offices and commercial enterprises. The size of the association with 139 sewage treatment plants and approx. 9% of the German sewage sludge production enables an innovative, region-wide management approach for sewage sludge as well as a targeted production and further treatment of ashes of different qualities. The part of the ashes that is more heavily contaminated with heavy metals is processed in a complex, wet-chemical recovery process with the aim of achieving extensive separation of pollutants and valuable substances by generating precisely fitting phosphoric acid qualities (purity, concentration) for regional customers. It is being examined whether ashes produced in a targeted manner with particularly low pollutant contents can be used in an alternative, possibly more cost-effective phosphorus recovery process. Due to the expected synergy and scale effects, significant advantages for composite solutions can be expected. In the AMPHORE project, therefore, public-law cooperation models are being examined and the cooperation of the participating water associations in the legal form of a limited liability company is being implemented as an example.

More information can be found on the RePhoR homepage at https://www.bmbf-rephor.de/en/joint-projects/amphore/ or on the project homepage https://www.ruhrverband.de/wissen/projekt-amphore/.

Project film and press reports: R-Rhenania in focus

3. June 202411. June 2024

Project film and press reports: R-Rhenania in focus

Filming of the 5th RePhoR film at the R-Rhenania joint project in Altenstadt, Bavaria, has been completed.

Following the successful filming of the other collaborative projects, the filming continued in Altenstadt, where the R-Rhenania pilot plant will go into operation this summer on the premises of Emter GmbH. Project coordinator Dr Christian Adam from the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Johann Emter, Managing Director of Emter GmbH, and Christoph Brey, Operations Manager on site, answered our questions in front of the camera. The day of filming was coordinated by BAM project manager Dr Hannes Herzel, and partners Dieter Leimkötter of sePura GmbH and Ludwig Hermann of Proman Consulting also took the opportunity to visit the plant and accompany the filming. The local press also took advantage of the concentrated expertise on site: journalists from the Schongauer Zeitung and the Landsberger Tagesblatt interviewed the consortium on site about the project. The articles are already published:

https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/landsberg/altenstadt-modernste-anlage-europas-aus-klaerschlamm-wird-phosphatduenger-id70594166.html

https://www.merkur.de/lokales/schongau/altenstadt-ort377062/aus-klaerschlamm-wird-phosphatduenger-altenstadt-emter-93052225.html

Such newspaper articles are very important as the topic of phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge is still not well known among the general public and newspaper articles in particular reach many people who are not explicitly involved in the topic. This helps to spread the word.

The article in the Landsberger Tagesblatt is subject to a charge, the article in the Schongauer Zeitung is available free of charge and both articles are only available in german.

We would like to thank the entire team on site for their great and professional cooperation!

As part of the BMBF funding measure RePhoR (Regional Phosphorus Recycling), the TransPhoR transfer project is producing a total of seven short films about the joint projects. The films provide a lively insight into the different approaches of the projects.

More information can be found on the RePhoR homepage at https://www.bmbf-rephor.de/en/joint-projects/r-rhenania/ or on the project homepage https://www.bam.de/Content/DE/Projekte/laufend/R-Rhenania/r-rhenania.html.