Networks of infrastructure zerowaste cluster
Jeroen Jordens, Dimos Paraskevas, Anja Maul, Kris Broos, Joost Helsen, Päivi Kinnunen, Wouter De Soete, Simon De Corte · Lirias (KU Leuven) · 2017
Europe is highly dependent on the import of raw materials to supply its core industrial activities. Several initiatives are therefore launched to increase resource efficiency and convert the current linear economic model into a circular approach. This requires a range of innovative technologies and infrastructures that are flexible to different resource types, availabilities and product compositions. One of the biggest hurdles for this innovation is, however, that it requires big and capital-intensive infrastructure. The European Institute of Technology (EIT) created the knowledge and innovation community EIT RawMaterials to tackle these challenges in the field of raw materials. EIT RawMaterials created virtual pools of state-of-the-art infrastructure within a certain domain of the raw materials value chain, i.e. networks of infrastructure (NoIs). The ZeroWaste cluster is a group of 9 of these NoIs and aims at providing and promoting services for unit processes in the ZeroWaste metallurgical toolbox.