Technical innovations for energy and material recovery from agrowastes
Iniziativa che ricade sotto il progetto “Spazi Espositivi per la Ricerca – Padiglione Italia EXPO2015” Accordo Quadro Regione Lombardia – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, partner di progetto Unioncamere Lombardia
When: 5 Ottobre 2015
Where: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Centro Congressi, Area della Ricerca Milano 1, Via Edoardo Bassini, 15, 20133 Milano (accesso diretto alla conferenza da Via Alfonso Corti, 14)
Agroindustry represents the second Italian manufacturing sector. Due to the characteristics of the waste produced, it is a candidate for playing a major role in a future "circular economy", as a source of "green" high value-added production and/or renewable energy. The seminar will analyze the possibilities for energy and material recovery in agroindustries, discussing some technological innovations and presenting the results achieved by a recent research project (ECO-SI project), co-financed by the Lombardy Region. The ECO-SI project is a pilot-scale investigation to recover cheese whey proteins and biofuels energy (biohydrogen and biomethane) from cheese manufacturing wastewaters.
PROGRAM
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
Energy and resource recovery from agrowastes (Chair: L. Morelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Campus di PIACENZA-CREMONA)
10.00 – 10.10 Opening remaks (F. Malpei, Politecnico di Milano)
10.10 - 10.40 Recovery and product development from effluents and waste of the food industry (N. Ravasio, CNR - ISTM)
10.40 - 11.10 Energy and re-useable water recovery from wastewater of the food industry (F. Malpei, Politecnico di Milano)
11.10 - 11.40 Membranes and food industry: a successful union (A. Comite, Università degli Studi di Genova)
11.40 – 12.10 Anammox and food industries: the state of the art (T. Lotti - D. Scaglione, Politecnico di Milano)
12.10 – 12.40 Discussion
12.40 – 14.00 Light lunch
The ECO-SI project: protein recovery, production of hydrogen and methane (Chair: F. Malpei, Politecnico di Milano)
14.00 - 14.20 The “Fuel Cells and Hydrogen” table of the Lombardy Energy and Cleantech Cluster (LE2C) (V. Dal Santo, CNR - ISTM)
14.20 – 14.40 The dairy sector in Lombardy and in Italy (C. Baldrighi, PLAC Soc. Coop.)
14.40 – 15.00 The ECO-SI project: scope and overall description (F. Malpei, Politecnico di Milano)
15.00 – 15.20 Dark fermentation: microbiological aspects (F. Cappa, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Campus di PIACENZA-CREMONA)
15.20 – 15.45 ECO-SI experimental results: protein recovery and energy production (G. Tanzi, SEPRA srl - A. Teli, Politecnico di Milano)
15.45 – 16.10 The research project ECO -SI: technological aspects and cost evaluations (D. Basilico, SEAM Eng. srl)
16.10 – 16.30 Discussion and conclusions
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Politecnico di Milano DICA e Polo di Cremona (www.fabbricabioenergia.polimi.it)
SEAM ENGINEERING S.r.l. (http://www.seam-eng.com)