SEEGLASS
Glass Recovering Revolution: High performance Optical Sorter for glass collection from Waste
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Project "SEEGLASS" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
PICVISA MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS SL
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| Coordinator Country | Spain [ES] |
| Project website | http://picvisa.com/en/pc/15-h2020 |
| Total cost | 1˙718˙977 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙203˙284 € (70%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.3.5. (SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials) 2. H2020-EU.2.3.1. (Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument) |
| Code Call | H2020-SMEINST-2-2015 |
| Funding Scheme | SME-2 |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-06-01 to 2018-01-31 |
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| 1 | PICVISA MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS SL | ES (CALAF BARCELONA) | coordinator | 1˙203˙284.00 |
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Project objective
The amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the EU28 reached 245 million tons in 2012. Nowadays, Europe directives for waste management are more restrictive each year (e.g Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC), but unfortunately, landfill disposal still represents 34% of total MSW generated. On the other hand, citizen awareness as well as the high fees operators pay for landfill disposal, have helped to greatly increase the percentage for recycling from 18% in 1995, to 42% in 2012.
However, 40% of all the glass waste ends up in mixed MSW plants (which typically contain 7% of glass). Instead of being disposed of in selective-waste collection, it ends up in landfills or is composted/incinerated with the remnant waste.
We have developed SEEGLASS, a high performance optical sorter based on computer vision and a pneumatic rejection system. Our aim is to solve this non-environmentally friendly problem, while also offering our end-users additional revenues with this recovered material, which is not being exploited now (49€/tn glass). In addition, extracting this glass, will allow the treatment plants to significantly reduce costs from waste disposal fees (50€/Tonne EU average and rising). Payback for customers is estimated in only 19 months.
With this project we will (i) construct pre-conditioning process line, (ii) optimise our current SEEGLASS computer vision system as well as its mechanical and pneumatic design, to reach 80% glass recovery, with 99% purity, (iii) integrate both, the process line and the glass sorter solution into a demonstrator system, and (iv) validate its feasibility in-house with real MSW coming from different countries, as well as carry-out an 24/7 end-user validation.
We, PICVISA, will be the first company to recover the glass fraction in refined MSW worldwide (the niche market exists worldwide) selling Turn-key installations or only SEEGLASS units, contributing to a disruptive change in the sector.
Deliverables
| Report on dissemination activities during the period of the grant | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 15:25:22 |
| Mid-report on communication activities | Documents, reports | 2019-05-30 15:05:13 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of SEEGLASS deliverables.
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