Fly ash as the precursors of functionalized materials for applications in environmental engineering, civil engineering and agriculture

Project title: Fly ash as the precursors of functionalized materials for applications in environmental engineering, civil engineering and agriculture

Agreement number: POIR.04.04.00-00-14E6/18-00

Name of the competition: TEAM-NET

Priority: 4.4 Increasing the personnel potential of the R&D sector

Project implementation period: 01.10.2019 - 30.09.2023

Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. inż. Wojciech Franus

Project value: 20 998 200,00 PLN

Abstract: The project is part of the scientific discipline of civil engineering and transport. Within its implementation, new ecological technologies for the production of warm-mix asphalts and construction materials based on cements will be developed. In the course of the FUNash project a series of functionalized materials produced based on the fly ashes generated during the burning of coal in electric power industry will be developed. Functionalized materials will be used in construction (cements and microbial biocements), agriculture (fertilizers and biostimulators/bioinhibitors) and environmental engineering (sorbents and bioproducts for remediation of polluted waters, soils and gasses). The R&D works will be conducted in a form of 6 complementary themes, and each topic will be implemented by a separate research team. As the result of the FUNash project, at least 19 products, 2 services and 4 technologies will be produced and offered to various branches of industry.