What are the desired outcomes of I3X-4?

• SMAR3TS project partner - UPC BarcelonaTech and its R2EM research and innovation team at Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering (CCEM Barcelona) are working on revolutionary approaches for maximizing water reuse and water recovery. With synergies to R3Volution project - HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions), the R2EM team is looking through smart, circular and integrated solutions (e.g., integration of MF, UF, NF, RO, EDBP-MD).
  
  The Innovate3X (I3X) challenge (described here as a call to innovate solutions for resilience, restoration, and regeneration) invites research and innovation talent within the SMAR3TS project to contribute to the following goal: to develop multi-scale approaches for testing, separation, removal, and recovery of valuable components, water, and energy through hybrid processes.

What skills and capabilities (across disciplines) would be beneficial for I3X-4?

• Development of technologies related to process optimization for water reuse, energy recovery in industry, bio-based economy, circularity and sustainability assessment

• Commercial analysis of technologies for separation, removal, and recovery material.

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Examples of Challenges that need to be addressed for I3X-4?

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• Development of digital tools for modelling and control optimization of testing processes, integration of AI into testing, separation, removal and recovery of valuable components, water, and energy

• Piloting separation, removal and recovery processes in industrial sites.​\​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I3X-4 Alignment to R3 - Resilience, Restoration, Regeneration​​

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