News/Events
Presentation of LIFE Brine-Mining at the 14th Conference for Membrane Technologies in Poland, June 21-23, 2023
Part of the LIFE Brine-Mining project results was presented by Dr. Krzysztof Mitko, Assistant Professor at the Silesian University of Technology, during the 14th Conference “Membranes and Membrane Processes in Environmental Protection” (MEMPEP 2023), held from June 21st to 24th, 2023. Dr. Mitko shared the results obtained from the combination ...
Video: An innovative solution for brine treatment with recovery of valuable end-products
Watch our project video to find out how LIFE BRINE MINING is transforming brines into resources and eliminates coal mining waste water discharge in circular economy context. Coal mines generate vast amounts of saline wastewaters. The direct drainage of these streams to surface water bodies results in their salinization, having ...
LIFE BRINE MINING Participation in VerdeTec 2023 exhibition in Greece
NTUA holded a stand at VerdeTec 2023, between the 17th to 19th of March, in MEC Exhibition Centre, Athens, Greece. Verde Tec is an international annual exhibition on environmental technologies attracting visitors from all sectors of the economy. NTUA team showcased the project’s innovative solution for extracting valuable resources from ...
Site visit with the participation of students
Students have visited the site as a part of the “Odzysk wody i innych surowców ze ścieków” (Recovery of water and other raw materials from waste water) class, which is part of the “Gospodarka obiegu zamkniętego” (Circular Economy) course offered by the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering of SUT. ...
3rd Consortium meeting in Athens, Greece
The LIFE BRINE-MINING 3rd Consortium meeting took place at the National Technical University of Athens library. The progress of the partner’s actions is being presented and co-organised (achievements, challenges, deliverables, milestones, future planning). Extensive discussion between NTUA, GIG and LENNTECH partners on existing transferability and replicabity potential of the BRINE ...
MED evaporator installation in the PGG Ziemowit mine and start-up of the pilot system – May 5, 2022
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 ...
Visits of interested parties’ executive members in the LIFE Brine- Mining process train installation – May 2022
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 ...