Hi, I am Paul, ESR 15. I wanted to let you in on my experiences during my first secondment in May and June at the REMO landfill. For me, this was a new experience. I have never visited a landfill before – have you? – and I was quite impressed, I have to say. First of all, it is BIG. ...

On September 19, the ESRs of ETN NEW-MINE gathered in Aachen, Germany, for the second network-wide event. On Tuesday, a workshop on communication skills and pitch presentations was presented by one of the ESRs themselves, Giovanna Sauve. Afterwards, the Researchers Council adjourned to discuss any issues they wanted to bring to the attention of the Supervisory Board. The next day, ...

During the last weeks we were planning the upcoming geophysical field work at two different landfill sites, the landfill site close to Mont-Saint-Guibert and the Remo landfill in Houthalen-Helchteren, both located in Belgium. We, that is me and my two supervisors Professor Marc van Meirvenne and Ellen van de Vijver, all work at Ghent university at the department of soil ...

The 2nd Network-wide Event of ETN NEW-MINE takes place from 19 till 22 September 2017 in Aachen (Germany). During the meeting, the 15 recruited Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and their supervisors, together with representatives of the partner organisations and the project management, will monitor the progress of the research project of NEW-MINE. Additionally, a field trip to the nearly Beppe landfill ...

Nowadays the waste everybody causes is collected and mechanically processed in treatment plants with state of the art technology. Such machines can be screens, magnetic and sensor based sorting technologies as well as ballistic separators or windsifters. But these high-end machines are not used in the field of landfill mining yet. One of the main tasks of work package 1 ...

Goooood day, hi and hello. We are the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) of WP4 of the NEW-MINE project. We represent the last WP and could be considered a little bit outside the box, if you will. While most of our colleagues have to deal with different technologies of Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) and do research on specific topics along the ...

Hi, now that you know what our colleague researchers of WP2 do (all about gasification!), it’s time to present you the third work package (WP3). Our goals are bold and ambitious but our hearts are strong and courageous! We will overcome the difficulty of handling the by-products of WP2 by developing high-value products with them. We plan to upcycle these ...

Hi! We are the ESRs of the second work package of the new-mine project (WP2), and we study plasma-driven gasification, solar-driven gasification and hybrid combinations. Our main objective is to convert the inflammable waste fraction from the excavated landfills (what we call RDF – Refuse-Derived Fuel fraction) into a clean synthetic gas (syngas) with a high concentrated hydrogen to be ...

Hi, we are the four Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) of Work Package 1 and we are in charge of the first steps of the NEW-MINE project! In these initial steps we will deal with the landfill exploration and excavation works, as well as with the mechanical processing of the excavated material, in order to unlock the recovery and energy generation potential ...

Part of NEW-MINE´s first steps, a delegation, composed of partner companies (Stadler and Group Machiels), supervisors and the young researchers of WP1, visited two operational sites of Shanks Belgium. The visited sites are a SRF (Solid Recovered Fuel) production plant located nearby the city of Ghent and a landfill situated in Mont-Saint-Guibert. The purpose of these visits was, on the ...