ACE Team Projects

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti, Jean-Philippe Croué

January 2024 - December 2027

National partnership

Post-FIRE pollutants mobilisation into surface water resources

This multi-faceted approach aims to fully understand the environmental consequences of wildfires and their impact on the contamination of water resour...

Coordinators : Julien Bouchez, Marc Benedetti

October 2022

International partnership outside Europe

TOF-COL

The formation of nano-sized (between 1 nm and 1 µm) particles is one of the most under-constrained processes of soil formation, while their export by ...

Coordinators : Eric van Hullebusch

November 2021 - April 2025

European partnership

Preventing Recalcitrant Organic Mobile Industrial chemicalS for Circular Economy in the Soil-sediment-water system

The project targets chemical pollutants often identified in brownfields: additives, chlorinated solvents, but especially perfluorinated compounds (PFA...

Coordinators : Eric van Hullebusch, Ata Utku AKÇİL

November 2020 - November 2023

National partnership

Bio-assisted Closed loop recycling of E-Mobility Metals from waste PCBs and Li-Ion Batteries (BaCLEM)

Downstream treatment of pregnant leaching solutions and recovery of critical metals in marketable forms (metal carbonates, metal sulphides and nanopow...

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti

September 2020 - August 2023

Fe-Mn oxides and trace element dynamics in Chinese red soils

This project seeks to identify the source and speciation of toxic metals (Cr and Cd) associated with iron oxides in soils from southern China

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti

September 2020 - August 2023

National partnership

Uranium speciation and competition between organic matter, calcium and carbonates

The project will quantify the evolution of the proportion of U(VI) associated with MON as a function of MON types, total U concentration and selected ...

Coordinators : Marc Benedetti

January 2020 - December 2023

PIREN Seine: transfers of nanoparticles to watercourses in drained agricultural basins

Characterising nanoparticles from agricultural catchments to better understand their origin and fate in the critical zone.

Coordinators : Eric van Hullebusch

November 2019 - April 2023

National partnership

Siderophores assisted Biorecovery of Technology Critical Elements: Gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge) and indium (In) from end-of-life products (SIDEREC)

The SIDEREC project is aiming at recovering Gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge) and indium (In) from end-of-life products end-of-life (EOL) products as a way...