On May 5, 2022, one more part of the innovative system for the treatment of mining procedures saline effluents was transported to the LIFE Brine-Mining plant. The Multi Effect Distillation Evaporator was added to the project’s process train, in the town of Lędziny, in southern Poland, to recover clean water and concentrate NaCl solution. The Evaporator was connected to the other technologies and the first trials of the system’s operation were conducted! Technicians and members of the companies participating in the project (LENNTECH, THERMOSSOL, TITANSALT) and representatives of other project beneficiaries (GIG, SUT, NTUA, SEALEAU) were gathered at the site

At the beginning of May 2022, representatives of Photonwater, a well-known company in the water treatment field in the Czech Republic, of TAURON, an energy holding company in Poland, and of PGG, Poland’s biggest coal mining company, visited the LIFE Brine-Mining pilot system installation and attended the placement and connection of the MED evaporator technology with the rest technologies of the system. Members of the project consortium guided the visitors in the pilot plant and informed them on the proposed innovative technologies by the project, its expected results, and the feasibility of transferability in other sectors, besides coal mining. More

On March 10, 2022, the LIFE Brine-Mining workshop was successfully held online with the participation of Veolia, a transnational company with activities in water management, waste management, and energy security, THERMOSSOL, a company with expertise in constructing steam boilers, the Silesian University of Technology in Poland, and inspiring European projects promoting fresh ideas on wastewater treatment and water purification: LIFE REMINE WATER, LIFE DESIROWS, and WATER MINING HORIZON. Representatives from the above-mentioned companies, institutes, and projects presented their works on the evaporation technologies for wastewater minimization! In total, 33 people attended the workshop. Among the participants were members of the

The event took place in Poland, in the premises of GIG, with representatives from the political, scientific and industrial sector. The aim of the event was to identify possible enablers and barriers for the market exploitation of the system. Furthermore, new opportunities arising from the new EU strategies about water and environment and the funding of systems solving the problem of the environmental pollution, caused from coal mining, were also discussed.

In September 28, 2021 the Brine-Mining partners visited the Dębieńsko Coal Mine, in Poland, which constitutes an important case study for the project, due to the fact that the Dębieńsko desalination plant is the 1st plant at a global level that applies a Zero Liquid Discharge system to treat coal mine effluents, able also to recover salt of edible quality. The partners were toured in the premises of the Dębieńsko Coal Mine and collected valuable information on the experience of the plant’s operators.     The project partners in the premises of the Dębieńsko coal mine  

The kick-off meeting of the LIFE BRINE-MINING project which was organized by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), was held in 11th of October 2019, at NTUA facilities in Athens (Greece) with the participation of representatives from the partners: SEALEAU, LENNTECH, Silesian University of Technology (SUT), Glowny Instytut Gornictwa (GIG), THERMOSSOL, Titan Salt and NEVIS.