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Women in Science – Meet Bianka Leidold
Women in Science: On 11 February every year, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated to promote the full and equal access and participation of females in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In FlashPhos, many women...
General Assembly Meeting
On January 17, 2023, FlashPhos partners jointly kicked off the new year in an online General Assembly Meeting. The meeting was the first consortium meeting gathering all project partners after last year’s successful Review Meeting and the General Assembly Meeting...
FlashPhos at Phosphorus Conferences ESPC4 and PERM5
The European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference (ESPC) and the Phosphorus in Europe Research Meeting (PERM) are unique events, bringing together companies, stakeholders, researchers, regional and national authorities to discuss sustainable phosphorus actions and...
First FlashPhos Review Meeting
On December 5, 2022, the first FlashPhos Review Meeting took place remotely. All 17 project partners participated in the meeting and shared with Project Officer Dimitrios Biliouris from the European Commission and external expert Laurent Cassayre the project...
Dryer-Grinder pre-experiments
What have we tried out to initially prove the dryer-grinder concept? Reminder from our last post: In the past, thin film dryers have been optimized for minimizing dust formation. Our idea is that, if minimization was possible, it should also be possible to maximize...
Step 1 of the FlashPhos process – the Dryer-Grinder
The first step in the FlashPhos process is a Dryer-Grinder. Have you ever questioned yourself why this is? In this blog, you will learn everything about it.Why do we want to dry and grind the sludge for the FlashPhos process? Mechanically dewatered sewage sludge is...
FlashPhos General Assembly Meeting
On June 1 and June 2, 2022, the FlashPhos General Assembly Meeting took place in Seville, gathering all project partners in the capital of Andalusia. Host of the meeting was project partner INERCO.After the Steering Committee Meeting in Leoben, Austria, in November...
How does the FlashPhos concept work?
FlashPhos will demonstrate at a large scale a thermochemical process to sustainably produce high-quality white phosphorus (P4) and other valuable raw materials using sewage sludge as input material. The FlashPhos concept follows an economically and ecologically...
Why sewage sludge and why white phosphorus?
In May 2021, 17 large companies, SMEs, non-profit organisations and universities from 5 EU countries have started to work on our H2020 project FlashPhos, aiming to build and operate a pilot plant to convert 250 kg per hour of dried sewage sludge at more than 1500°C...
Critical Raw Materials in the EU
The main output of the FlashPhos process, white phosphorus (P4), is a critical raw material (CRM). The European Commission has published a list of CRMs that is being regularly reviewed and updated. To count as CRM, materials must fulfill two criteria: High...