SOREME
Low cost sorbent for reducing mercury emissions
Informazioni Generali
- Coordinatore:
- CNR - CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (Italia)
- Responsabile ENEA:
- MAGNANI GIUSEPPE - SSPT-TIMAS-MCC (FAENZA)
- Ruolo ENEA:
- PARTNER
- Sito WEB:
- http://www.pi.iccom.cnr.it/soreme/
Descrizione e Attività
Descrizione Generale
Each year, more than 2 000 tonnes of mercury is released into the air and thus the global environment. Some 340 tonnes/yr of this comes from Europe. Mercury is released to the environment as methyl mercury (MeHg), a bioaccumulative neurotoxin. Recent research has also linked methyl mercury with possible harmful effects on the cardiovascular, immune and reproductive systems. Elemental mercury is insoluble in water and cannot be captured effectively by wet scrubbers, so it must be captured using solid sorbents.
Sulphur-impregnated activated carbon is the best mercury sorbent currently available, but is very expensive (7 to 12 Euro per kilogramme) and so most organisations use cheaper but less effective non-impregnated activated carbon (3 to 6.50 Euro/kg). A recent European Commission-funded project, "Single state production from waste tyres of the best existing sorbent for the removal of mercury from gas stream: sulphur impregnated carbon - MERCSORB" studied the production of sulphur-impregnated activated carbon from waste tyres.
Objectives
The SOREME project will demonstrate the use of an innovative sorbent for the removal of mercury from gas streams from different industrial production cycles. The sorbent will be produced from sulphur-impregnated activated carbon (S-AC) derived from waste tyres.
The project's specific objectives are:
To demonstrate the use of a high quality S-AC sorbent, produced at lower cost than non-impregnated activated carbon;
To demonstrate the complete industrial functioning of a plant for continuous production of the SOREME sorbent;
To reduce mercury emissions from different industrial production cycles below current levels;
To use the semi-industrial pilot plant for the demonstration of the effectiveness of the SOREME sorbent for filtering out mercury emissions at a semi-industrial scale. This will allow the carrying out of numerous trials with lower mercury emissions than current industrial production; and
To reduce European social and health costs by more than €485 million annually while delivering €80 million per year in end-user savings.
Attività svolta da ENEA
L'ENEA è responsabile dell'azione B3 (demonstration of innovative projects mercury sorbent at laboratory level), Azione C3 (environmental monitoring of the innovative project mercury sorbent at industrial level).
Programmi Europei
- Programma:
- Other programmes → LIFE + (2007-2013) (N/A - Non applicabile)
Dati Finanziari (in euro)
Costo Eleggibile
- Progetto:
- 1.551.040,00
- ENEA:
- 276.380,00
Contributo
- Al progetto:
- 730.694,00
- A ENEA:
- 116.576,00
Durata del Progetto
- Anno di stipula e Durata:
- 2013 - 24 mesi
- Periodo:
- 01-01-2013 → 31-12-2014
Numero di Partner (5)
Keyword associate al progetto dal database di CORDIS (3)
Altre Keyword non presenti nel database di CORDIS (5)
Sostituzione da parte di Confindustria Emiliaromagna della sua controllata Confindustria Emiliaromagna Ricerca; aumento del budget ENEA da 96.576 a 116.576 euro (disp. Comm. N. 2192014/COMM).