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This project has received funding from the Research Fund for Coal and Steel under Grant Agreement No 899518
MINRESCUE
From Mining Waste to Valuable Resource: New Concepts for a Circular Economy
Duration:
01.09.2020 - 31.08.2023
Project coordinator:
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK
Project manager in GIG:
Department of Extraction Technologies, Rockburst and Risk Assessment
mgr inż. Aleksander Wrana
e-mail: awrana@gig.eu
tel: + 48 32 259 2307
Description:
The core goal of the MINRESCUE project is to develop and validate strategies to upgrade coal mining waste geomaterials (CMWGs) for sustainable construction purposes. The improvement protocol to be used by the stakeholders will be defined based on the engineering functionality assigned to the improved waste material, the service life of the construction product and its application, and the environmental scenario (including, e.g., site conditions, climate, and mechanical actions). The protocol will be tailored as a function of the physical, chemical/mineralogical and mechanical properties of the available CMWGs. This implies a new paradigm to employ the mine wastes in the concept and design of construction materials and building/structure/infrastructure components with sustainable signature and fit-to-purpose performances, including short-term and long-term behaviour under the intended
scenario and up to the end-of-life of the targeted application. The project will provide ready-to-use tools that will be used to promote sustainable and durable reuse of CMWGs improved by a specific procedurę or by chemical additives for the production of high-end building products and structural/infrastructural components.
The project consortium is formed by the following partners:
- UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (WARWICK), UK
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (UNEXE), UK
- GŁÓWNY INSTYTUT GORNICTWA (GIG)
- SUBTERRA INGENIERIA SL (SUBTERRA), Hiszpania
- DTEK ENERGY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (DTEK), Ukraina
- LUBELSKI WEGIEL BOGDANKA SA (LWB)
- CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITE (CY), Francja
- POLSKA GRUPA GORNICZA SA (PGG SA)
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES (BRGM), Francja
- POLITECNICO DI MILANO (POLIMI), Włochy
- NUOVA TESI SYSTEM SRL (NTS), Włochy
- POLTEGOR INSTYTUT INSTYTUT GORNICTWA ODKRYWKOWEGO-POLTEGOR
Website:
https://minrescue.gig.eu/
