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Audio Technical Manual Life Agromine

An introduction to agromining in Greek with Maria Konstantinou (International Hellenic University) and the science communicator Evgenia Tsianou (alchemia-nova).

Trailer Agromining in Greek:

 

Introduction to Agromining in Greek:

 

Audio Technical Manual in Agromining (English):

  1. What is agromining?

    Answer by Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine and Johannes Kisser, alchemia-nova

  1. What did you research in Life Agromine?

    Answer by  Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine

  2. Why is agromining a modern research topic? What is the background?

    Answer by  Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine, Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU and Marie-Odile Simonnot,University of Lorraine

  3. Why is nickel important?

    Answer by Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine

  4. What is a super plant, a hyperaccumulator?

    Answer by  Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine

  5. How many plants can accumulate nickel?

    Answer by Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU

  6. How does the hyperaccumulator absorb the nickel? What is the mechanism?

    Answer by Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU

  7. What are the new results regarding the super plants  in Life Agromine?

    Answer by Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU

  8. The hot spot of agromining in Albania & Balkans.

    Answer by Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU and Aida Bani, University of Tirana

  9. How does the co-cropping function in agromining? What are the results from the Life Agromine experiments?

    Answer by Ramez Saad, econick

  10. Nickel salts are extracted with hydrometallurgy, what is this process?

    Answer by Claire Hazotte, econic

  11. How to assess technically and economically the agromining?

    Answer by Tom Kuppens, Hasselt University

  12. Cost & Prices: agroming vs current extraction methods?

    Answer by Tom Kuppens, Hasselt University

  13. Can agrominining replace the current extraction methods in quarries?

    Answer by Claire Hazotte, econick

  14. What are the benefits and drawbacks of agromining?

    Answer by Tom Kuppens, Hasselt University

  15. Agromining: what metals can we extract apart from nickel?

    Answer by Markus Puschenreiter

  16. What is a circular economy?

    Answer by Johannes Kisser, alchemia-nova

  17. Why is Agromining a circular economy project?

    Answer by Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine and Johannes Kisser, alchemia-nova

  18. How to use the nickel and other byproducts from agromining?

    Answer by Marie-Odile Simonnot, University of Lorraine

  19. What are the byproducts of agromining?

    Answer by Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine

  20. Circular economy with plants, what are the Challenges and Opportunities

    Answer by Johannes Kisser, alchemia-nova

  21. How to apply sludge treatment in industry with agromining?

    Answer by Claire Hazotte, econick and Gaylord Machinet, microhumus

  22. What are the key lessons learned from agromining?

    Answer by Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine

  23. Concerns in agromining

    Answer by Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine

  24. What can we achieve with agromining in the future?

    Answer by Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine and  Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU

  25. Exciting times during the experiments in Life Agromine?

    Answer by Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU

Meet the Life Agromine team

Guillaume Echevarria, University of Lorraine, Project Coordinator Life Agromine

Markus Puschenreiter, BOKU

Aida Bani, University of Tirana

Marie-Odile Simonnot,University of Lorraine

Tom Kuppens, Hasselt University

Johannes Kisser, alchemia-nova

Claire Hazotte, econick

Ramez Saad, econick

Gaylord Machinet, microhumus