Utilization of organic sludge in metal industry - OSMET 3.0

Purpose and goal:

OSMET 3.0 aims to verify the developed concept of upgrading and using residues generated from pulp & paper and other industrial sectors for metallurgical applications, thus contributing to climate change mitigation, minimizing residues to landfill and saving natural resources. The project can potentially lead to a fossil fuel saving of 800 GWh, fossil CO2 emission reduction of 180 000 ton, and it will reduce 122 000 ton resides to landfill per year.

Expected results and effects:

With a successful implementation the project, more industries, companies, SMEs, communities and NGOs from other countries knew about the concept, and more similar project activities

have been planned and performed. Thus, the OSMET concept can be widely adopted to recycle, reuse and valorize residues to achieve a circular economy. Swedish academic actors can, by cross-fertilisation of competences and industrial collaborations, remain and advance further as world leaders in developing and deploying environment-friendly approaches to solve common problems.

Approach and implementation:

Both pilot and industrial trials have carried out to test the newly developed products made of industrial residues. The project applied a system perspective, where we used LCA to quantify the environmental performance, and spatial system analysis to assess national capacity. We

have considered different system levels and actors, such as forest industry, energy companies, transportation sector, etc. Business models were further developed to maximize the value chains even beyond the project timeline.