Objective This project is focused on the waste tyres recycling and promotes a thermal process mainly devoted to the production of ceramic materials. The disposal of waste tyres represents a relevant problem within the waste management strategy of the European Community and, despite the attempts of reusing waste tyre in many different ways, a relevant fraction (nearly 23%) is still landfilled. Pyrolysis and gasification are a promising way for alternative high-efficiency material and energy production, since both the processes provide a gaseous and a liquid fraction easily usable as fuels or chemical sources. Nevertheless, besides these encouraging preliminary remarks, the experiences on both pilot and industrial scale have shown that without a valuable exploitation of the solid by-product (char), the whole economic balance of the process is not advantageous and therefore the process is not sustainable. The gasification/pyrolysis treatment of waste tyres, apart from a high hydrogen rich syngas, brings to a very high carbon-rich char fraction, which has been tested in the past as a semi-reinforcing filler for new tyres or as an active carbon. Nevertheless, despite the recent technological advances, it is still unclear whether there is a market demand for this product. On these bases, the main idea of the proposal consists in redirecting the gasification process towards the material recycling, by coupling a second thermal process, dedicated to the plasma synthesis of silicon carbide, to the preliminary waste tyres gasification. The overall strategy of the project’s workplan mainly consists of three levels: a.the development of a sustainable recycling process for the waste tyre treatments, with the final construction of a prototype plant; b.the sustainability assessment, in terms of impact analyses on economical, ecological and social aspects; c.the market requirements analysis and the future perspectives in view of potential stakeholders, and the diffusion of the results. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecyclingnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryinorganic compoundsengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloids Programme(s) FP7-ENVIRONMENT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) Topic(s) ENV.2008.3.1.3.2. - Technologies for high added value production from waste Call for proposal FP7-ENV-2008-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE EU contribution € 1 326 788,00 Address LUNGOTEVERE GRANDE AMMIRAGLIO THAON DI REVEL 76 00196 Roma Italy See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Franco Carvisiglia (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all EUROPEAN TYRE RECYCLERS ASSOCIATION France EU contribution € 150 500,80 Address PLACE DE LA CATHEDRALE 29 67000 STRASBOURG See on map Activity type Other Administrative Contact Ettore Musacchi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Germany EU contribution € 436 090,40 Address TEMPLERGRABEN 55 52062 Aachen See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Städteregion Aachen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ernst Schmachtenberg (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU Türkiye EU contribution € 512 702,00 Address Ataturk Bulvari 221 06100 Ankara See on map Region Batı Anadolu Ankara Ankara Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Mustafa Tiris (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ELASTRADE S.R.L. Italy EU contribution € 87 588,00 Address S.S. 17KM 94, 700 67035 PRATOLA PELIGNA See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ettore Musacchi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HUN-REN TERMESZETTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT Hungary EU contribution € 551 321,60 Address MAGYAR TUDOSOK KORUTJA 2 1117 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Other Administrative Contact Silvio Antonio Benussi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FEBE ECOLOGIC - STUDIO ASSOCIATO DI CONSULENSA E FORMAZIONE AMBIENTALE Italy EU contribution € 84 000,80 Address Via Canalazzo 44 48100 Ravenna See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Emanuela Scimia (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LIQTECH INTERNATIONAL A/S Denmark EU contribution € 169 400,00 Address INDUSTRIPARKEN 22C 2750 Ballerup See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Københavns omegn Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jens Husted Kjær (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SOCIETA ITALIANA CARBONI ATTIVI VEGETALI SRL Italy EU contribution € 31 600,80 Address ZONA INDUSTRIALE 66052 GISSI See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Nicola Zocaro (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data