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Welcome Back to the GOLD
Newsletter! It's
been a while, and we're excited
to share updates as project GOLD enters its final stage.
This newsletter highlights the significant progress made in
recent months, culminating in our final event: Advanced Biofuels
and Phytoremediation, on 29 April 2025. Join us for key findings
from our 4-year journey to bridge the gap between phytoremediation
solutions and cultivating energy crops on contaminated land for
clean biofuel production.
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Join us for the GOLD final event: Advanced biofuels and
phytoremediation – Bridging the gap and opportunities for the
management of contaminated land.
Our concluding event will take place on 29 April 2025 at
the Centro Residenziale Universitario of
the University of Bologna, Bertinoro,
Italy. It will be held in a hybrid format, allowing
participation both
in-person and online.
Over the past four years, the GOLD project has conducted research
and innovation to grow industrial crops on contaminated land. This
innovative approach aims to manage and revitalize contaminated land
while simultaneously producing low ILUC risk biofuels from
lignocellulosic crops through thermochemical pathways. The event
will showcase the final results of this
4-years journey, attendees will gain insights into:
- optimizing
industrial crops for growing on contaminated land and for
contaminant extraction;
- advanced
pre-treatment and conversion processes for biofuels and
contaminant removal;
- best value chain
approaches environmental, economic and socio-economic
assessment of the best value chains.
The agenda includes international sessions, a panel
discussion and a roundtable. This is an opportunity to learn about
the project's main findings and engage with project partners and
stakeholders. Participation is free of charge, registration is
required.
Check out
the agenda and register now!
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The approach of GOLD is
based on 3 pillars: growing energy crops on contaminated land,
producing low ILUC risk biofuels
and optimizing the value chains. Check out the
recent reports from our partners working on these three components.
Pillar 1- Growing energy crops on
contaminated land, focuses on testing and
demonstrating the cultivation of non-food energy crops
(miscanthus, switchgrass, sorghum, hemp) for pollutant
extraction, phytomanagement and
phytoremediation techniques in contaminated areas, also including
the use of biostimulants and mychorrizzae.
Recent
reports:
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The dissemination of knowledge and
fostering scientific impact has been aided by our partners'
considerable efforts in producing numerous peer-reviewed
publications in addition to project reports over the past few
months, here’s a review of the most recent papers.
Mixotrophic Syngas Conversion Enables the
Production of meso-2,3-butanediol with Clostridium autoethanogenum
Anne Oppelt,Anton Rückel
et al. 2024.
Plant testing with hemp and miscanthus to
assess phytomanagement options
including biostimulants and mycorrhizae
on a metal-contaminated soil to provide biomass for sustainable
biofuel production
Felix
Ofori-Agyemang, Christophe Waterlot et
al. 2024.
Phytomanagement of a metal-contaminated agricultural soil
with Sorghum bicolor, humic / fulvic
acids and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi near the former Pb/Zn metaleurop Nord smelter
Felix
Ofori-Agyemang, Aritz Burges et al., 2024.
Dry reforming of methane at high
temperature and elevated pressure over nickel spinellized
powder catalyst and pellets prepared from a metallurgical residue
Muhammad
Irfan Malik, Maroua Rouabah et al., 2024.
Green synthesis of Cu-Mo promoted Fe
catalyst for production of the gaseous and liquid fuels through
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
Zahra
Teimouri, Nicolas Abatzoglou, Ajay.K. Dalai, 2023.
Biostimulant and Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Application on
Four Major Biomass Crops as the Base of Phytomanagement
Strategies in Metal-Contaminated Soils
Pietro
Peroni, Qiao Liu, Walter Zegada
Lizarazu, 2024.
Catalytic routes for upgrading pyrolysis
oil derived from biomass
Dalia Allouss, Ines Esma Achouri, Nicolas Abatzoglou 2024.
Hydrothermal conversion of Cu-laden biomass
to one-step doped hydrochar used as a
potential adsorbent for 2-nitrophenol removal
Dalia Allouss, Antoine Dupont et al. 2024.
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Discover all our resources on our website and
connect to our LinkedIn page for more updates
gold-h2020.eu
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GOLD – Bridging the gap
between phytoremediation solutions on growing energy crops on
contaminated lands and clean biofuel production, is a
Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action started in May 2021
that will continue through April 2025. The project has
received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research
and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101006873.
The sole responsibility for the content of this
newsletter lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect
the opinion of the European Union. Neither the European
Commission nor the granting authority can be held responsible for
any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
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