2016/01/01 by Marie‐Odile Simonnot, Simonnot, Marie-Odile, Serge Guimont +3
Engineering · #Analyse du cycle de vie #Brownfield soils #Contrasted Technosols #Fibres #Forest Biomass Utilization and Management #Life cycle assessment #Mots-clés Sols de friches industrielles #Pyrolyse #Pyrolysis #Short rotation coppices #Sols de friches industrielles #Taillis à courte rotation #Technosols construits
paper · doi:10.15454/1.5137736430850764e12
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
The LORVER project (www.lorver.org) aims at developing a chain to produce biomass for industrial purposes, by reusing degraded sites (e.g. brownfield soils) and abandoned materials (e.g. urban or industrial by-products). In the context of circular economy, these abandoned sites and materials must not be viewed as a drawback but as new resources. This project brings together a consortium composed of companies and laboratories having the required expertise to construct this chain, allowing the environmental and economic upgrading of abandoned sites and materials while respecting the principles of sustainable development. After having identified the resource of available sites and byproducts, the approach consists of 1) construct Technosols from by-products, to reach the agronomic properties required for cultivation, 2) implement cultivations (short rotation coppices, hemp, nettle, hyperaccumulator plants), 3) develop processes to produce energy, biochar, fibres, metal-based M.O. compounds, and 4) assess the environmental and economic impacts of the chain. This project, conducted in the Lorraine region (France), will demonstrate the pertinence of the approach.