The project was introduced by SSIP Experimental Station for the Leather and Tanning Materials Industry of Pozzuoli, as part of the 2021 Scientific Training and Communication Program.
The topic concerns how to manage sludge deriving from the tanning industry with the aim to transform it into an energy source and to reduce its disposal volume through the introduction of sludge from tanning processes in virtuous enhancement cycles. The advantages both from an environmental and an economic point of view will be enormous.
“We are in front of a broader context that aims at the development of the circular economy,” said Prof. Piero Salatino. “We are talking about the goal – recalled the professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Industrial Production of Federico II – of enhancing marginal biomass with a high potential, there is energy enhancement and recovery of inorganic components. For sludge deriving from tanning plants, this idea represents a big challenge given the complexity of the product. Finding a destiny for these materials is a real issue. We are in an initial phase with encouraging results”. “
We introduced the first results at the end of the first year of this energy enhancement of tanning sludge project. It was born from the desire to promote the reduction of the environmental impact and to enhance processing residues in accordance with the principles of a circular economy, we will work to make it one of the initiatives funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan PNRR. We can and must make energy from waste, the Italian Campania region represents a national example”, underlines the director general of SSIP, Edoardo Imperiale.
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