LIFE Green Ammonia
Project title: LIFE Green Ammonia. Market technology based on membranes for the reduction of ammonia in livestock farms.
Project number: LIFE20 ENV/ES/000858
Description of the project:
The project aims to reduce NH3 emissions from excreta in pig and poultry farms. The objectives of the project are to develop, scale-up and market commercial models for NH3 recovery in gaseous and liquid media, through the technology of gas-permeable membranes and collection of this NH3 by an acid solution to form a fertilizing salt for marketable use.
The technology: Gas permeable membranes
Gas-permeable membrane technology is a N-recovery technology that consists of a hydrophobic gas-permeable membrane through which an acidic solution (commonly diluted H2SO4) is recirculated. By diffusion, the NH3 passes through the micropores of the membrane and is captured in the acidic solution to form an ammonium salt, which can be used as a fertilizer.
Objectives of the project:
1. Reducing NH3 emissions:
In pig and poultry farms from the atmosphere (inside the house)
In pig farms from the manure storage tank
Replication of the project results in EU: Spain and Portugal
2. Development of a TRL 8–9 commercial models for ammonia recovery:
Developing, designing, and marketing two commercial models for ammonia recovery: one for ammonia capture in liquid media and another for ammonia capture from the atmosphere inside animal housing.
Applying the gas–permeable membrane technology
Promoting policy initiatives to replicate and transfer the project results as a
Best Available Technique.
3. Fertilizer by–product:
Developing two strategies to commercialize the fertilizer product (ammonium sulfate)
Promoting policy initiatives to replicate and transfer the project results.
Coordinator: Ruta Kronberga, Fundación Universidad de Valladolid,
lifegreenammonia@fundacion.uva.es
Website: www.lifegreenammonia.eu
Video: vimeo.com/782909451