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CERESIS | Researching contaminated land remediation

The University of Tuscia scholars shown progress in ceresis horizon 2020 eu project

“CERESiS: ContaminatEd land Remediation through Energy crops for Soil improvement to liquid biofuel Strategies” Horizon 2020Project international conference was hosted by the Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility of the National Research Council (STEMSC.N.R.) in Naples, Italy. The CERESiS Project Consortium analyzed the current stage of researches on energy crops and phytoremediation, as well as the future work. The international group of scholars presented its reports on field trials in UK, Italy, Ukraine, and Brazil, covering experimental characterization of contaminated soil, yielded biomass, energy crops production and liquid biofules.
The University of Tuscia research group includes: Prof. Andrea Colantoni, Dr. Leonardo Bianchini and Dr. Riccardo Alemanno from the Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE).

Prof. Andrea Colantoni in his presentation stressed on the optimisation of cultivation and harvesting methods of energy crops.
The progress on phytoremediation trials and midterm results of study conducted at the University of Tuscia on the basis of the Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences presented Dr. Leonardo Bianchini and Dr. Riccardo Alemanno.

During the conference the special attention was paid to the clean biofuel production and separation of contaminants. The scholars were discussed the improvement process for contaminated biomass-to-biofuel conversion and laboratory-scale experimental investigation.
The CERESiS partners also looked at the biofuel and biochar production regulations. Moreover, they outlined the examples and opportunities of concentrated solar thermal systems integration into thermochemical processes.
The consortium members were considered the first version of the CERESiS DSS platform and the development of the Machine Learning models that will uphold decision support process.

Consortium partners had the study visit to the STEMS laboratories. The scholars got acquainted and inspected Auger reactor for fast pyrolysis of contaminated biomass and other CNR facilities.