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FP6 - 11774
SOLVSAFE - Advanced Safer Solvents for Innovative Industrial Eco-Processing
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www.solvsafe.org
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Nanotechnology and Materials
| Type of Project |
Integrated Project |
| Contract No |
FP6 - 011774 |
| Total Cost |
9,920 KEuro |
| EC Contribution |
5,700 KEuro |
| Start Date |
13-10-2005 |
| Duration |
Months |
Abstract
SOLVSAFE is a solvent innovation platform aimed at providing European SMEs
with cutting-edge scientific knowledge, to introduced radical industrial process changes
with the following environmental and safety goals:
- 50-100 % reduction in the number and quantity of hazardous solvents utilized
- a 70% reduction of Volatile Organic Compounds emissions to the atmosphere
- a 60% decrease of CO2 emissions
- a 40% increase in the quantity of renewable materials utilized
- to reduce solvent concentrations in production sites below the Occupational Exposure Level
with no need of high-cost abatement technologies.
To fulfil these objectives, fundamental research and development in:
- Neoteric solvents
- Non-conventional, non-toxic solvents
- Solvents from renewable feedstocks
- Water-based processes
- Innovative synthetic strategies; and
- Recently discovered biotech methodologies will be applied to a wide variety
of industrial processes resulting in breakthrough innovations in 5 different industrial sectors:
- Manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
- Production of Biofuels and its By-products
- Production of Agrochemicals and Crop Protection Products
- Oil Seed Extraction; and
- Manufacture of Solvents.
EU legislation concerning the protection of air; water, and human health against hazardous
chemical substances will alarmingly restric the use of existing solvents by 2010. This is due to:
- Important sources of VOC in air which, in turn, are precursors of toxic tropospheric ozone
- Pollutants in natural bodies of water;
- Toxic for human health
Therefore, there is an urgent need in Europe for industrial safer solvents. SOLVSAFE
addresses one of the major problems of European industry through multi-sector approaches
involving solvents manufacturers, suppliers, and end-users with a potential impact over
2.2 million metric tones of solvents used in the EU annually and 10 millions persons employed
that manufacture or use solvents
Coordinator
Green Chemistry Program, Institut Universitari de Ciencia i Tecnologia (IUCT), Spain
Partners
- Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientficas, Spain
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Lechler S.P.A., Italy
- Isagro Ricerca S.r.l., Italy
- Consorzio Interuniversitario "La Chimica Per L'ambiente", Italy
- Asociacion Espanola De Fabricantes De Materias Primas De Uso Farmaceutico, Spain
- Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co KG, Germany
- Centrul Pentru Cooperare Tehnologica Si Industriala S.A., Romania
- Syndicat De L'industrie Chimique de Synthese et de la Biochimie, France
- IsochemCompany, France
- Cerbios Pharma S.A., Switzerland
- StemarS.R.L., Romania
- Centrul De Chimie Organica "Costin D. Nenitescu", Romania
- Menadiona, S.L., Spain
- Industrias GMB, S.A., Spain
- Energea Unwelttechnologie GmbH, Austria
- Explora SA Mendrisio Branch, Switzerland
- Biolab SPA, Italy
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