Success Story

CHIMIE,
CONSTRUCTION &
ENVIRONNEMENT

SOILS & SEDIMENTS &
DECONTAMINATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

DIGITAL

GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING,
INDUSTRY, INNOVATION & INFRASTRUCTURE,
LIFE BELOW WATER &
LIFE ON LAND

MEMORIS

HOW CAN YOU UNDERTAKE IN-SITU REHABILITATION OF SITES HEAVILY CONTAMINATED BY MIXED POLLUTANTS?

GreenWin presents MEMORIS :

The reallocation of industrial wasteland for new activities is a major challenge for Wallonia and Europe. These sites are often heavily polluted and soil rehabilitation is required.

The most widespread technique – the excavation of contaminated soils, their transport and storage in technical landfill centres, with or without any treatment – remains costly, is polluting, and poses health risks for those living nearby.

The MEMORIS project aims to develop a bioremediation and monitoring process for the in situ remediation (without excavation) of sites that are heavily affected by mixed pollution and allow their rapid reuse while also preserving the assets presented by their infrastructures.

Les « + » :

The MEMORIS process combines 4 different techniques in a very unique way, each technique being innovative in itself and bringing novel and efficient in situ remediation and monitoring solutions:
The development of biostimulation and phytoremediation techniques allows for more rapid, more efficient and less costly in situ decontamination.
The processes developed will be competitive compared to excavation, transport and offsite treatment, or again to the “pump and treat” method of cleaning such cocktails of pollutants that require heavy treatment units and are therefore costly.
Innovative monitoring techniques will allow to follow the evolution of the decontamination on a regular basis and in the long term, and track any residual risk.
The remediation – monitoring pairing will constitute a new approach for the management and progressive reutilisation of heavily contaminated sites according to the toxicological risks involved.

Project supported by the following consortium:

Project sponsor: Duferco Wallonie
The company: Duferco-Wallonie; Siterem
Universities and Higher Education Institutions UMons -Tox / GFA / CBA; ULg - GxABT

MEMORIS

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