(AGENPARL) – mar 26 settembre 2023 ENTIRE LIFE
project proposal
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Overview
Programme: Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)
Call for proposal: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Standard Action Projects (SAP)
LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA
Priority area: Climate Change Mitigation (CCM)
Funding contribution: 60%
Deadline: 21st September 2023
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Project idea
ENTIRE LIFE – Waste tires recycling: a sustainable pyrolytic process to produce aviation fuel, ENergy, new TIREs
and reduce crude oil extraction
Average funding: € 3.5 – 4 M
Duration: 48 months
Consortium: 6 partners
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Project contribution to the LIFE CLIMA
programme
Area of intervention: Actions which enhance the functioning of the existing EU Emissions Trading System
and which have an impact on energy and greenhouse gas intensive industrial production
Activities are intended to start at not lower than Technology Readiness Level 5 and target at most
Technology Readiness 8-9
Solutions that enhance the recovery, recycling and reuse of waste materials, so as to reduce the use and CO2intensive processing of primary raw materials in energy intensive industries. Projects that combine work on
improved collection and separation with recovery, recycling and reuse of waste materials would be eligible.
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Project goal
In order to reach the targets set out in the European Climate Law, the ENTIRE LIFE project will contribute to the recovery, recycling and reuse of
waste materials, with the aim to reduce the use and CO2-intensive processing of primary raw materials in energy intensive industries.
The increasing amount of tires production, consumption and disposal should meet some new perspective to improve their end-of-life, involving this
waste stream in sustainable upcycling processes. ENTIRE LIFE proposed three different perspectives, to reuse waste tires and contemporarily assist
the decarbonization of some non-sustainable, energy-consuming processes. The main method used in this project for this waste transformation is a
low-temperature pyrolysis process (that causes very low CO2 emissions, being carried out under inert atmosphere), to obtain three different products
(aviation fuel, new tires, energy).
The production of a waste-derived (thus sustainable) aviation fuel is a very important step forward, made by ENTIRE LIFE, to free aviation industry
from fossil fuels extraction. Aviation Plan to achieve net-zero by 2050 require formulation and merchandizing of new SAF, and the possibility to
produce a new one for waste tires could be a relevant plan to reach this aim.
At the same time, also the adding of the remaining part of the output material from waste-tire treatment to produce carbon black and energy is a way
to reduce fossil fuel extraction, giving a fully circular-economy soul to this process. In fact, the solid output material coming from the tire treatment is
a carbon black, that can be reused as coloring ad reinforcing material to produce new tires: the use of this recycled carbon black avoids the
extraction ad treatment of new coal, coal tar and petroleum.
Also the gaseous phase produced in the process ensures the sustainability and circularity of the process, being a source for the plant energy
supply.
ENTIRE
project
focused
demonstrate
sustainability
opportunities
the recycling of waste tires in order to obtain higher added value products, trough the construction of a pyrolysis plant at the site of the project partner
SARAS. The project specific objective will be verified as well through the successful implementation of the recycling process and the production of
SAF and new carbon black as additives for new tires pruduction.
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WP breakdown
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Contact points
RINA-C
Name and surname
Aspetti
Main contact point
Marina Focarile
tecnici/amministrativi
Main contact point
Martina Vagnoni
tecnici/scientifici
Main contact point
Susanna Penko
amministrativi/finanziari
Supervisor
Giorgia Spigliantini
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For more info:
Thank you
Marina Focarile & Martina Vagnoni
RINA-C