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Digitalisation for circular resource-intensive industries: Final results from RETROFEED project

After an exhilarating and demanding four-year journey, the RETROFEED project is excited to unveil its most promising outcomes. Join us for a special event taking place in the heart of Europe, Brussels, as well as online, providing an opportunity for all interested stakeholders and experts to engage. The journey towards decarbonization has been set in motion, and RETROFEED takes pride in being a significant contributor to this transformative process. We invite you to be part of our journey! Register here!

Agenda:

08:30-09:00 Registration and welcome coffee

09:00-09:10 Welcome & Introduction (Diego Redondo, Fundación CIRCE)

09:10-09:20  Key-note speech (Lucia Fernandez Marcia, European Health and Digital Executive Agency HaDEA)

09:20-09:30 RETROFEED in a nutshell (Roberto Arevalo Turnes, CIRCE)

09:30-10:15 RETROFEED achievements in ceramic, cement, aluminium, steel and agrochemical sectors & remaining challenges – views from the sector (TORRECID, SECIL, ASAS, FERRIERE NORD, SILCOTUB and FERTIBERIA)

Moderation: Ludo Diels, Advisory Board Member, A.SPIRE

11:15-11:45 Networking Coffee break

11:45-13:00 Round table: Driving innovation in European Resource-intensive industries: Digitalising for competitiveness.

Presentations (10 minutes each):

 Luca Ferrari OPTIT SRL – DSS & Market potential for the RETROFEED solutions

Diego Redondo Fundación CIRCE – Replication potential and challenges

Dusan Jakovljevic EEIP – loT: EU Digital Decade

Attila Uderszky GEONARDO

Francisco Rodriguez Lorenzo AIMEN

Jaroslav Brel HTT Engineering

Jaolaw Hercog IEN

Sofia Klugman IVL

 Moderator: Rod Janssen, EEIP

13:00-13:15 Wrap up (Fundación CIRCE) + Quiz play session (EEIP)

Diego Redondo Taberner Fundación CIRCE

Jürgen Ritzek EEIP

13:15-14:00 Lunch

Researchers visit Fertiberia plant

Posted on | by Ana Sofia Praxedes

Researchers from the University of Seville visit Fertiberia plant at Palos de la Frontera (Huelva).

Within the framework of RETROFEED, in April, Fertiberia – one of the demo sites in the agrochemical sector involved in the project, received a group of researchers from the University of Seville at their plant in Palos de la Frontera.

The students’ group took the opportunity to learn about the technologies being developed in the facilities, as well as the project and its goals and developed tools.

Ramón García, Director of the plant, received the researchers together with Francisca Galindo, Technical Director of Grupo Fertiberia. A very fruitful visit in which Fertiberia was able to share the progress of the project focused on the use of by-products to obtain circular economy-based raw materials, as well as the reduction of industrial consumption thanks to the use of alternative sources, reintegrating into the chain of value the residual heat of the reactions.

Grupo Fertiberia participates directly in the RETROFEED project with a demonstration at the NPK plant in Huelva, where an innovative in-line reactor will be installed, in which phosphoric acid is replaced by sulfuric acid, an industrial by-product from the neighbourhood, in the circular economy to valorise incineration ashes from food industries and water treatment products, among others.