LIFE DIMITRA

Objectives

LIFE DIMITRA aspires to achieve high GHG emissions savings and mitigate nitrogen losses from the efficient conversion of digestate into high quality bio-based fertilisers and the substitution of fossil mineral fertilisers, thus also fostering the principles of cascading use of digestate for the recycling of its nutrients. A significant decrease of GHG emissions from biogas digestate management is targeted, by enhancing digestate properties, developing new fertilising formulations from digestate, improving nutrient use efficiency for fertilisation and reducing the dependence on on-site land application. Apart from fertilisers, clean water is recovered, which can be used on-site or for irrigation purposes. Digestate valorisation will also lead to reduction of GHG emissions related to the storage and transportation of large volumes of raw digestate.