UPV - Networking
28/06/18

Jose B. Carbajo (AINIA) attend to “Workshop: Hacia la autosuficiencia energética en las Estaciones de Depuración de Aguas Residuales” to perform nerworking action with LIFE  Saving E.

Andrés Pascual (AINIA) presented the talked “Biorefineries of organic residues” in the Waste Biorefinery – International Technical Conference (Valencia). LIFE Lo2x consortium carried out networking activities with stakeholders such as Local Authorities, Wastewater operators and Food & Brewery Industries.

Jose B. Carbajo (AINIA) presented the talked “Supercritical Water co-Oxidation (SCWcO) of urban sewage sludge and wastes” in VII Jornada sobre gestión y tratamiento de lodos de EDAR organized by UB (Barcelona).

More info: http://www.ub.edu/jornadalodos/programa.html

WWI, technical journal of water and wastewater, published the article “Comparing technologies for treatment of sewage sludge: Introducing supercritical water co-oxidation – LIFE Lo2x” in its 6 number.

More info.: http://www.waterworld.com/articles/wwi/print/volume-32/issue-6/technology-case-studies/super-sludge-development-in-spain.html

TECNOAQUA, technical journal of water and wastewater, published the article “LIFE Lo2x: Demostración de los beneficios de un co-tratamiento sinérgico de lodos de EDAR y residuos” in its 27 number.

More info.: https://www.tecnoaqua.es/kiosco/revista27/visor

FUTURENVIRO, technical journal of environment, published the article “LIFE Lo2x: Co-oxidación en aguas supercrítica de lodos de EDAR y residuos. El artículo revisa los principales resultados alcanzados en el proyecto LIFE Lo2x” in its 43 number.

More info.: http://futurenviro.es/digital-versions/2017-09/files/assets/basic-html/page17.html

Event
27-29/09/2017

Andrés Pascual (AINIA) exhibits LIFE Lo2x in LIFE event - 2017 Conference of the European Innovation Partnership on Water.

http://www.portowaterinnovationweek.eu/eip

Press release
30/07/2017

La Razón, a Spanish newspaper that has an average daily readership of close to 50,000 copies, published the article “Líderes en regadío responsible” in which LIFE Lo2x is cited.

Radio interview
15/07/2017

Elvira Casas (AINIA) explained the LIFE Lo2x at Agropopular program in Cadena Cope, a Spanish radio station that has 2,824,000 listeners.

Press release
09/07/2017

El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper that has an average daily readership of close to 300,000 copies, cited LIFE Lo2x.

Radio interview
08/06/2017

Elvira Casas (AINIA) exhibited the LIFE Lo2x at La Llavor program in La SER, the most popular radio station in Spain with 4,206,000 listeners.

Event
28/06/2017

Cristina García-Vera (URBASER) presented the talk “LIFE12ENV/ES/000477 LIFE LO2X”, at Technical Workshop on N and P enoval in wastewater.

Networking
20/06/2017

Jose B. Carbajo (AINIA) carried out a networking activity with two others LIFE projects, which aims to demonstrate the environmental and socio-economic benefit of treatment of sewage sludge and pig slurry: LIFE ECOdigestion and LIFE LEMNA. In the picture: Pau Granell (LIFE ECOdigestion) and Jose B. Carbajo (LIFE Lo2x).

Event
20/06/2017

The LIFE Lo2x consortium organizes the event “Urban Sewage Sludge: from Waste to Resource”. Different members of project in the field of wastewater and waste treatment sector that have synergies with LIFE Lo2x participated in the event.

Jose B. Carbajo (AINIA) presented the talk “LIFE Lo2x: Co-oxidación en agua supercrítica de lodos de depuradora y residuos” at INFODAY REGIONAL 2017.

http://www.ite.es/evento/programa-life-2017-infoday-regional/

Press release
14/05/2017

El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper that has an average daily readership of close to 300,000 copies, cited LIFE Lo2x.

Desk officer visit
05/05/2017

Technical and financial desk officers from European Commission and the external monitor to the project visited LIFE Lo2x consortium. The visit was used to check the implementation of the project activities, to discuss any outstanding technical or financial issues and to provide clarifications.

Stakeholder visit: Gemwater (Italy)
05/04/2017

Gemwater, a well-known engineering company from Italy, expert in the design and construction of water and waste water treatment plants, visited LIFE Lo2x demonstrative plant. In the picture Roberto Calderom (Gemwater).

Event: Conference of Innovation (Madrid)
30/03/2017

Cristina Álvarez (URBASER) presented LIFE Lo2x at the Conference of Innovation “Biorefineries: transforming biomass into bioenergy and bioproducts”.

Stakeholder visit: Estonian and Lithuanian LIFE project assistants
29/03/2017

Estonian and Lithuanian LIFE project assistants visited AINIA Technological Centre, in which was explained LIFE Lo2x.

El País - Press release
10/03/2017

El País, the highest-circulation daily newspaper in Spain, published the article “Las diez ideas españolas para ahorrar agua frente al cambio climático” in which LIFE Lo2x is cited.

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University Polytechnic of Valencia (UPV) - Stakeholder visit
09/03/2017

University Polytechnic of Valencia (UPV) visited LIFE Lo2x demonstrative plant. In the picture Antonio Mullet (UPV), Jordi Casal (SCFI) and José V. García (UPV).

RETEMA - Technical article
24/02/2017

RETEMA, technical journal of environment, in its 196 number published the article “Oxidación en agua supercrítica de lodos de EDAR: Proyecto LIFE Lo2x”.

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CLIMATE KIC “The Journey”
21/07/2016

A total of 43 students from several EU countries attended the visit to AINIA facilities in Paterna (Valencia, Spain). LIFE Lo2x project showed their results in a session organized for environmental projects presentation.
Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership, working together to address the challenge of climate change.

INFODAY REGIONAL LIFE 2016
15/07/2016

The LIFE Lo2x project took part in the event called Infoday Regional LIFE 2016 celebrated yesterday in Paterna Technological Park (Valencia, España). This is an annual event which has been organized by Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, Generalitat Valenciana, Cámara Valencia, EEN SEIMED y REDIT.
This event allows to companies and private and public institutions share experiences in projects related with environment and climate change, in the Framework of LIFE from European Commission.
Javier Claros, researcher in the environmental department of AINIA, showed results related with LIFE Lo2x prototype building, and also some aspects related with their start-up and operation.     

On Thursday, 31-3-2016, the representative of the LIFE External Monitoring Team (NEEMO EEIG), Mr. Borja Domínguez, visited the LIFE Lo2x project. The project partners presented the progress of the project actions to the monitor and the ongoing activities in the demo site.

External monitors are mainly senior experts skilled in the different environmental and nature fields addressed by the LIFE programme. Besides their technical skills, they have experience in the monitoring and evaluation of programmes and/or projects, and they have local knowledge which allows them to understand the projects’ specificities and to communicate with local stakeholders

The monitoring support includes not only the regular monitoring of LIFE projects’ technical and financial progress, but also evaluating the quality of the outputs of these projects and continuously assessing how the means and activities will contribute to the results (assessing therefore the efficiency of the project). It also allows, on completion of the project, to assess to what extent the results have contributed to the project’s objectives (assessing its effectiveness), as well as the project’s sustainability and its socio-economic impacts, compared to what was foreseen in the original project description. The project monitor also conducts ex-post missions to some projects, with a view to assessing their long-term impacts and sustainability.

LO2X: First coordination meeting in 2016
29/02/2016

On Monday 29th February and Tuesday 1st March it was held the first LO2x coordination meeting in 2016, the final year of the project.

The meeting started with a visit to the prototype plant in Paterna WWTP where a general revision of the sequence of actions B2, B3 and B4 up to the date was done.  Key elements were assessed in situ.  Also, the progress of C and D actions (indicators and location for the notice board) were also shared.

The meeting followed with two-day working session in AINIA which focused in planning of 2016 activities, revision of the conclusions of the EC to the Mid-Term Report submitted in late 2015, technical and financial aspects and troubleshooting.

LO2x team highly recommends you to follow closely our activities for the year to come, where we will start to show the outcomes of the project.

HEAT INSULATIONS APPLIED TO LO2X PROTOTYPE
08/02/2016

B Implementation Actions keep going ahead. Standing on previous subactions in B2 (Building up activities), the last one dealing with heat insulation has been developed and as a result, special insulations have been applied in an important part of the facility in accordance to exigent LO2X processing conditions.

Supercritical water oxidation conditions imply high pressure and high temperature, above water critical point (above 221 bar and 374ºC). As a result, insulations are required for two purposes: 
- to make possible to keep the exigent processing temperature conditions taking profit of the energy associated to the reaction itself.
- to protect people opearating the demonstrative facility along any processing step against burning wounds caused by direct contact to hot materials.

Heat insulations pave the way to carry on with the foreseen star-up test (B3) and oxidative tests (B4).

LIFE Waste Platform meeting at Green Week 2014 (Brussels)
3-5/06/2014

The 2014 edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, will take place from 3 to 5 June at The Egg Conference Centre, Rue Bara, in Brussels. The theme will be Circular Economy, Resource Efficiency & Waste.

Antonio Tornero and Andrés Pascual (AINIA) will attend the event on behalf of the project Lo2x.