Gentle remediation of trace element
contaminated land
Greenland (FP7-KBBE-266124)
Name
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT
Contents:
• Project Objectives
• Work packages
• Project Consortium
• Expected results and benefits
• Acknowledgment
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Project Objectives
• Gentle remediation options (GRO) include various and in general plant
(associated microbes)-based options to remediate trace element
contaminated soils at low cost and without significant negative effects for
the environment.
• Although GRO comprise very innovative and efficient technologies, they
are still not widely used as practical site solution due to several hindrance
reasons .
• Greenland will solve the remaining problems and make GRO ready for
practical application.
• Contamination of soils with trace elements (TE) is worldwide still one of
the major environmental concerns. Conventional technologies for soil
remediation are usually very expensive and may negatively affect or
destroy soil structure and functions.
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Project Objectives
• Gentle soil remediation options (GRO), however, comprise
environmentally friendly technologies that have little or no negative
impact on the soil.
• The main technologies are phytoextraction, in situ immobilization and
aided phytostabilization.
• Although major progresses have been achieved on the lab scale, success
stories obtained at field scale are still limited, in particular for
phytoextraction.
• Also, the issue of valorization of the potentially contaminated plant
biomass has insufficiently been addressed so far. In addition, further
development is needed regarding the adequate determination of GRO
endpoints .
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Project Objectives
• Finally, the application of GRO as practical site solution may be hindered
by legal frameworks and by insufficient knowledge of the decision makers.
Therefore, the FP7-project GREENLAND has been launched on January 1,
2011 to address these issues and to make GRO ready for use as practical
site solution.
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Work packages
WP1:
WP2:
WP3:
WP4:
WP5:
Sustainable
management
adapted to TE
contaminated
soils and
deployment of
GRO at field
scale
Valorisation of
plant biomass
produced on TE
contaminated
sites
Harmonization
of methods to
assess the
bioavailability
of TE and
development of
a tool set to
monitor the
sustainability of
GRO
Improving GRO
through plant
selection and
modifications in
soil TE
bioavailability
Appraisal of
current GRO
practice, and
development of
implementation
guidance and
decision
support
frameworks
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Project Consortium
Markus Puschenreiter,
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Coordinator); Austria
markus.puschenreiter@boku.ac.at
Jaco Vangronsveld, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium;
Jurate Kumpiene, Luleå Tekniska Universitet;
Michel Mench, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France;
Valerie Bert, Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques, France;
Andrew Cundy, University of Brighton, UK;
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Project Consortium
Petra Kidd, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain;
Giancarlo Renella, University of Florence, Italy;
Wolfgang Friesl-Hanl, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria;
Grzegorz Siebielec, Instytut Uprawy Nawożenia I Gleboznawstwa – Państwowy,
Poland
Rolf Herzig, Phytotech-Foundation, Switzerland;
Ingo Müller, Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie,
Germany;
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Project Consortium
Jannis Dimitriou, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Sweden;
Xose Quiroga Troncosa, Tratamientos Ecológicos del Noroeste SL, Spain;
Ryszard Bajorek, ATON, Poland;
Patrick Lemaitre, Innoveox, France;
Anne Lopinet-Serani, CNRS-ICMCB, France
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Expected results and benefits
• The consortium consists of scientists and engineers from universities,
research institutions, and small and medium enterprises.
• The stakeholder’s perspective will be integrated via an Advisory Board,
formed by National Environmental Agencies representatives, that will
regularly meet the project consortium.
• The outcomes of this European project will be a major benefit for the
European leadership in Environmental Sciences and Technologies, the
European Bio-Economy, and the integration of EU Research and Education.
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Expected results and benefits
• In addition to the soil remediation process:
–
the recovery of polluted soils by using plants and associated microbes has the potential
to significantly support the European demand for renewable biomass that can be used
as plant-based feedstock (e.g. for bio-energy production and the replacement of fossil
fuels), carbon sequestration and mitigation of climate change, clean water, increase in
biodiversity, etc. and
– this will offer an attractive possibility to gain profit from contaminated land not suitable
for agricultural production yet.
• Finally, the GREENLAND project will contribute to solve two major
environmental concerns in one shot….with green shoots!
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
Acknowledgements
This project is financially supported by the
European Commission under the Seventh
Framework Programme for Research (FP7KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).
This project is financially supported by the European Commission under the
Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7-KBBE-266124, GREENLAND).