Emirates Global Aluminium has announced collaboration with the American University of Sharjah’s College of Engineering to research the economic and environmental benefits of re-using of food waste to enrich manufactured soils made from bauxite residue, and further applications in waste-to-energy. The AED 1.6 million three-year research project is the second phase of EGA’s cooperation with the American University of Sharjah on the re-use of bauxite residue, a by-product stream from alumina refining.The new research follows three years of work between the two organisations to establish technically how food waste as biochar, a type of charcoal based on indigenous agricultural knowledge from the Amazon basin, can be combined with treated bauxite residue to create a manufactured soil for greening and other purposes. Other by-products from food waste in the potential treatment process, bio-oil and bio-gas, were also identified in the first phase of research, with potential waste-to-energy uses.The new research aims to show that an integrated process would be environmentally and economically beneficial, and enable the UAE’s significant food waste generation to contribute not only to bauxite residue re-use but also waste-to-energy projects.
Emirates Global Aluminium has announced collaboration with the American University of Sharjah’s College of Engineering to research the economic and environmental benefits of re-using of food waste to enrich manufactured soils made from bauxite residue, and further applications in waste-to-energy. The AED 1.6 million three-year research project is the second phase of EGA’s cooperation with the American University of Sharjah on the re-use of bauxite residue, a by-product stream from alumina refining.The new research follows three years of work between the two organisations to establish technically how food waste as biochar, a type of charcoal based on indigenous agricultural knowledge from the Amazon basin, can be combined with treated bauxite residue to create a manufactured soil for greening and other purposes. Other by-products from food waste in the potential treatment process, bio-oil and bio-gas, were also identified in the first phase of research, with potential waste-to-energy uses.The new research aims to show that an integrated process would be environmentally and economically beneficial, and enable the UAE’s significant food waste generation to contribute not only to bauxite residue re-use but also waste-to-energy projects.
