Kill-Spill delivers innovative (bio)technologies, which can be integrated to the real sequences of state-of-the-art actions used currently to cleanup oil spills. The catalogue of Kill-Spill products & technologies is based on a review of technology & knowledge gaps in approaches of oil spill disasters and brings appropriate tools for 1st response, follow-up, and longer-term actions, specifically tailored to the versatility of oil spills. Kill-Spill develops chemicals & biochemicals to be used for 1st response actions to disperse/emulsify oil and materials enabling the containment and sorption of oil, preparing the field for the follow-up actions. Kill-Spill develops (Bio)technologies aiming at intensified biodegradation processes by bioaugmentation/biostimulation as follow-up and longer term actions in aerobic/slight anoxic compartments. Kill-Spill develops (bio)technologies adapted for the remediation of anoxic/anaerobic fresh & chronically polluted sediments. Kill-Spill compiles knowledge on dispersion/sorption and biodegradation processes to produce multifunctional products, which are suited for follow-up and longer term actions. The multifunctional products address the necessity for integrated bioremediation (bioavailability, metabolic requirements, etc.) and are efficient along the whole redox gradient from surface water to sediments. The products/technologies are field-tested in open sea oil spills and large mesocosms to unravel the champions products & technologies. The (bio)tools are benchmarked with existing solutions using cutting-edge analytics, biosensors, and omics and checked for eco-efficiency to merit green label.
Kill-Spill consortium is multidisciplinary and gathers 35 partners from 11 EU and EU-associated countries and USA; 20 research & academic institutions, 13 SMEs, 1 large company, and 1 association of oil spill companies work together with the support of a high level advisory board to cover the whole chain of oil spill (bio)remediation.
Coordinator:
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE-TUC (Greece)
Other participants:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
- Dip. di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof. Fabio Fava
FACHHOCHSCHULE NORDWESTSCHWEIZ-FHNW (Switzerland)
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE-UNEW (UK)
The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland-GEUS (Denmark)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA-UNIRM (Italy)
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES
CIENTIFICAS-CSIC (Spain)
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER-Ulster (UK)
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE-CNR (Italy)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-UMIL (Italy)
UNIVERSITEIT GENT-Ugent (Belgium)
VYSOKA SKOLA CHEMICKO-TECHNOLOGICKA V PRAZE-ICTP (Czech Republic)
Københavns Universitet-UCPH (Denmark)
BANGOR UNIVERSITY-Bangor (UK)
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES
FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH-HMGU (Germany)
MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM MBA (UK)
UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN-UCL (Belgium)
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY-NUIG (Eire)
BIOBASED EUROPE LIMITED-BBE (UK)
BIOREM ENGINEERING BVBA-BIOREM (Belgium)
GORTON CONSULTANCY LTD GCL (UK)
CREATIVE RESEARCH SOLUTIONS BVBA-CRS (Belgium)
Environmental Protection Engineering S.A. - EPE (Greece)
MADEP SA-MADEP (Switzerland)
HEIQ MATERIALS AG-HeiQ (Switzerland)
MARITIM MILJO BEREDSKAP AS-MMB (Norway)
INSTITUT ZA FIZIKALNO BIOLOGIJO D.O.O. -IFB (Slovenia)
EcoTechSystems Srl-Ecots (Italy)
UK SPILL LIMITED-UKSpill (UK)
VERMICON AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT-VER (Germany)
ACTYGEA SRL-ACTY (Italy)
Omya Development AG-OMYA (Switzerland)
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-UB (USA)
Start date 01/01/2013
End date 31/12/2017
Duration 48 months
Project Reference 312139
Project cost 12.483.643,40 EURO
Project Funding 8.996.599 EURO
Area FP7-COOPERATION-KBBE
Subprogramme Area KBBE.2012.3.5-01: Innovative biotechnologies for tackling oil spill disasters (The Ocean of Tomorrow)
Contract type Collaborative project