MINRESCUE - From Mining Waste to Valuable Resource: New Concepts for a Circular Economy

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MINRESCUE addresses major challenges in Europe’s coal mining industry by developing innovative approaches to manage, recycle, and upcycle waste geomaterials generated by mining activities. The project focuses on reducing environmental footprint and costs while upgrading CMWGs into sustainable construction materials that support circular economy goals in coal mining areas. Research advances durability assessment, treatment and transport properties, technical upgrade guidelines, added value through characterisation, modelling, and demonstration, and accelerates market uptake via life cycle assessment and dissemination.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages65

Reading Time2 h 44 min

AccessFree to download

CORE OBJECTIVES

Money saving and environmental footprint reduction

Upgrade CMWGs to a sustainable construction materials

Circular economy in coal mining areas

INNOVATIONS

Site location, climate, treatment strategy, and material properties

Durability of upgraded or treated CMWGs

Technical guidelines for upgrading CMWGs

ADDED VALUES

Specialized characterisation and treatment protocols

Transport properties, mechanical and geotechnical behaviour

Constitutive modelling and upcycling into new products

KEY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES & OBJECTIVES

Design guidelines for treated construction (geo)-structures

Recovering upgraded components and reducing impacts via LCA

Enabling market uptake of upgrading and upcycling technologies

WORK PACKAGES

Mechanical experiments and numerical modelling

Physical and chemical characterisation and treatment

Closing the cycle of CMWGs application in construction

Dissemination, outreach, reporting and coordination

ISSUES THAT MINRESCUE ADDRESSES

CMWG-induced pollutions, raw geomaterial demand, dump land use, dump failure

Participation

12 organizations from 6 European countries

MINRESCUE From Mining Waste to Valuable Resource: New Concepts for a Circular Economy (RFCS GA 899518) MINRESCUE aims to address one of the major challenges of coal mining industry in Europe: Developing innovative concepts for managing, recycling and upcycling waste geomaterials generated by coal mining activities across Europe. CORE OBJECTIVES Money saving and environmental footprint reduction Upgrade CMWGs to a sustainable construction materials Circular economy in coal mining areas 2 INNOVATIONS Explore the effects of site location, climatic conditions, treatment strategy, and material properties on the performance of upgraded and/or treated CMWGs. Durability of the upgraded and/or treated CMWGs’ performance Technical guidelines to upgrade any type of CMWGs ADDED VALUES The specific added value of MINRESCUE can be found in the six areas of the proposed research Specialized physical and chemical characterisation of CMWGs Treatment protocols for CMWGs Transport (hydro-chemo) properties of treated CMWGs Mechanical and geotechnical behaviour of treated CMWGs Advanced constitutive modelling of CMWGs Upcycling of CMWGs for new products • The mechanical and chemical characterisation of the mining waste materials • Numerical modelling to predict behaviour of treated CMWGs • Assessment and demonstration of the durability of materials and (geo)-structures made by CMWGs under realistic conditions • Providing guidelines for the design of construction materials and (geo) -structures with the treated KEY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES & OBJECTIVES • Providing guidelines for the design of construction materials and (geo) -structures with the treated • Developing concepts for recovering upgraded components • Substantiation of the reduction of environmental impacts through well thought-out life cycle assessment (LCA) • Paving the way for market uptake of CMWGs treatment upgrading and upcycling technologies WORK PACKAGES Mechanical experiments and numerical modelling Physical and chemical characterisation of CMWGs and their treatment Closing the cycle of CMWGs application in construction Project dissemination and outreach Reporting and coordination ISSUES THAT MINRESCUE ADDRESSES CMGW-induced pollutions Large demand for raw geomaterials Large areas occupied by CMWG dumps Waste dump failure Countries 6 Organizations 12 pioneering organizations from 6 European countries are participated in MINRESCUE

FAQs

What problem does MINRESCUE target in Europe’s coal mining industry?

It tackles the challenge of managing, recycling, and upcycling waste geomaterials produced by coal mining activities across Europe.

What are the core objectives of the MINRESCUE project?

The project aims to save money and reduce environmental footprint, upgrade CMWGs into sustainable construction materials, and advance circular economy practices in coal mining areas.

Which outputs and added values does MINRESCUE deliver?

It provides specialized characterisation, treatment protocols, studies on transport and mechanical/geotechnical behaviour, advanced constitutive modelling, and guidelines plus demonstrations to support durability and new product upcycling.

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