Bergwerk Pflanze

Metal recovery from waste incineration slag using hyperaccumulating plants

Project summary

As part of this project, metal-accumulating plants were cultivated on waste incineration slag, and the metal uptake in various plants and plant parts was analysed. These experiments were conducted in a laboratory for two years following two years outdoors at the Rautenweg landfill, gaining application-oriented insights for implementing the concept of metal recovery using hyperaccumulating plants. A bio-ore was extracted from the biomass itself using five different refining methods.

Within this project, a dissertation and two master’s theses were completed in cooperation with BOKU.

Project description der BOKU

Project management
Technisches Büro für Technische Chemie
DI Monika Iordanopoulos-Kisser

Project partner
alchemia-nova, BOKU-IBF

Project status
completed, Start 03/2014, Duration 36 Monate
FFG Produktion der Zukunft, 4. tender
Total budget: € 629.663 – FFG financial support € 503.600

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