IEA Bioenergy Task 36 Workshop on nutrient recovery from waste
Background: For a number of years now there has been an increased focus in Europe on the nutrients that are lost through linear use/treatment of waste (specifically food/organic waste fractions in MSW and sewage sludge). Connected with the fact that the market for phosphorus being dominated by Morocco and Western Sahara having around 80% of the reserves (considering what is economically feasible to extract today). In Europe there are increased demands to collect organic waste separately to close the loop. There are some traditional recovery of nutrients through composting, the use of digestate from AD and the use of sewage sludge on farmlands. Also there are debates around the utilization of sewage sludge as fertilizer. The advantage of closing the loop has to be compared with the risk of contaminating the farmland with heavy metals and pharmaceutical residues (amongst other risks). Different technologies are being developed to recover (primarily) phosphorus and a number of the technologies are connected to thermal treatment of the waste.
Aim: To give an overview/status of the nutrient recovery from waste in the member states of the task. Both regarding technology/methods used as well as development and legislation/policy on the matter. During the workshop we will also try and discuss opportunities and barriers in the member states. The results of presentations/discussions will be presented in a summary report from the workshop.
Programme:
8.30 Introduction
8.45 Overview of Technologies in development for recycling of phosphorus (Bo von Bahr, RISE)
9.15 Status of nutrient recovery from waste around the world
– Australia, Daniel Roberts CSIRO
– France, Elisabeth Poncelet, Ademe (tbc)
10.15 Coffee break
10.40 Status of nutrient recovery from waste around the world
– Germany, Dieter Staph, KIT
– Italy, Giovanni Ciceri, RSE
– Norway, Øyvind Skreiberg, Sintef
12.10 Lunch
13.10 Status of nutrient recovery from waste around the world
– South Africa, Cristina Trois, University of kwaZulu-Natal
– Sweden, Bo Von Bahr, RISE
– USA, Beau Hoffman, U.S Department of Energy
14.40 Coffee break
15.00 Overview of the status in Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, UK , Switzerland and Canada, Bo von Bahr, RISE
15.30 Discussion about opportunities and barriers and the effect on waste management and Energy from waste.
16.15 Summary
16.30 End of workshop
