The final short film shoot is complete: the joint project RePhoRM invited participants to the project location at the Höchst Industrial Park in Frankfurt am Main in early September. The joint project coordinator, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Engelhart from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Institute IWAR, together with project partners from Glatt GmbH and Infraserv GmbH, presented the project. The pilot plant was built in the industrial park last year and has been in the testing phase since this year. We would like to thank the entire team on-site for the professional collaboration and the exciting insights!
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.
Within the framework of the joint project RePhoRM, a technological and organizational solution for phosphorus recycling in the Rhine-Main area is being developed and implemented. Based on the mono-sludge incineration capacity and its potential expansion in the Frankfurt Rhine Main metropolitan region, a cooperative phosphorus recovery from sewage sludge ash is to be implemented. In accordance with the Hessian resource protection strategy, a fertilizer granulate is produced as a phosphorus recyclate which can be used directly to close the regional nutrient cycle in agriculture. When implementing phosphorus recycling, the particular interests of the partners in the network must be taken into account with regard to the technology for phosphorus recovery and the formation of a phosphorus recycling network. From a technological point of view, the aim is to remove heavy metals from the sewage sludge ash before the actual phosphorus recovery. Within the framework of the project, the PHOS4green technology to produce fertilizer granulate is therefore further developed by a heavy metal removal of the (input) sewage sludge ash and the process is implemented on a large scale in Industriepark Höchst. In addition to an economic and ecological study of phosphorus recycling, the integrated solution will be legally assessed and organised.
More information can be found on the RePhoR homepage https://www.bmbf-rephor.de/en/joint-projects/rephorm/ or on the project homepage https://www.klimaphonds.de/.