Pilot investment for Estonia: “Waste-to-product mobile unit”

Estonian pilot unit is for testing oil shale waste rock. Produces limestone aggregate and oil shale. Possible use of produced limestone aggregate is construction industry or backfill material for oil shale mines. Oil shale can be used for oil shale oil, cement or energy production.

Consists of three phases:
1) selective crusching with crushing bucket
2)  sieving unit
3) wet separation unit

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Mining Waste Reduction Methods by Mäeinstituut

Selective crushing

From MIN-NOVATION 7th MBN meeting in Tallinn, 14...17.05.2013

From MIN-NOVATION 9th MRN meeting in Estonia

Measuring environmental impact (noise, dust) and cycle of operations

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Sample

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Sieving unit

From MIN-NOVATION 9th MRN meeting in Estonia

From MIN-NOVATION 7th MBN meeting in Tallinn, 14...17.05.2013

From MIN-NOVATION 7th MBN meeting in Tallinn, 14...17.05.2013

Wet separation

From MIN-NOVATION 7th MBN meeting in Tallinn, 14...17.05.2013

Enritchment Unit by Mäeinstituut

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MIN-NOVATION Baltic Meeting in Estonia, 14...17.05.2013

In May, project partners met in Tallinn, Estonia. Estonian pilot unit was demostrated, visited Viru Keemia Grupp and conference "Mining Waste Management in Estonia" was held.

Pilot unit demonstration

From MIN-NOVATION 7th MBN meeting in Tallinn, 14...17.05.2013

Visiting Viru Keemia Krupp

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From MIN-NOVATION 7th MBN meeting in Tallinn, 14...17.05.2013

Conference "Mining Waste Management in Estonia", 16.05.2013

From MIN-NOVATION 7th MBN meeting in Tallinn, 14...17.05.2013

1. “Mining waste management in Baltic Sea Region: MIN-NOVATION project”, Piotr Szmigielski, FII

2. “Financing for technology-based startups/companies, including mining waste management companies in Estonia“, Kati Nikopensius, Startup Incubator Tehnopol

3. “Role of Environmental Board in Mineral Extraction”, Tiit Kaasik, Environmental Board

4. “Mineral Resources of Estonia”, Tarmo All, Ministry of Environment

5. “Waste Management challenges in Estonia” Ulvi-Karmen Mõller, Ministry of Environment

6. “Cement production and waste management”, Riho Iskül, Kunda Nordic Cement, Heidelberg Group

7. "National Energytechnology Programme a way to sustainable economy", Jaanus Sahk,National Energytechnology Programme

8.  “Oil Shale Competence Center”, Kalle Pirk, Oil Shale Competence Center, TUT

Moderator: Ph.D. Heidi Elisabet Soosalu, TUT Department of Mining

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MIN-NOVATION aims to create a trans-national network with regional networks as building blocks of effective multi-lateral cooperation. The activities carried out on the regional and transnational level will secure better access to knowledge, state-of-the-art technologies and good practice to SMEs (small and medium enterprices) active in the mineral waste management & prevention sector. The project will address all the waste management challenges and opportunities which face the Baltic Sea Region mining industry, which should be understood as extending to all forms of extraction of natural non-renewable resources. 

MIN-NOVATION Baltic network (MBN) has set up with the essential role of facilitating diffusion of knowledge and good practices between regions. This will involve providing transnational feedback to regional issues, and elevating cross-regional issues to status of transnational priority areas.

MIN-NOVATION project is part R&D activity in Department of Mining and is related to the study of “Sustainable and environmentally acceptable Oil shale mining”, AR12007; „Backfilling and waste management in Estonian oil shale industry“, GRANT8123 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF8123; Doctoral School of Energy and Geotechnology work group "Sustainable mining" - egdk.ttu.ee

Additional information

Veiko Karu, Department of Mining

veiko.karu@ttu.ee

http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation/ 
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Conference "Mining Waste Management in Estonia". 16.05.2013

Agenda

“Mining waste management in Baltic Sea Region: MIN-NOVATION project”, Piotr Szmigielski, FII

“Financing for technology-based startups/companies, including mining waste management companies in Estonia“, Kati Nikopensius, Startup Incubator Tehnopol 

“Role of Environmental Board in Mineral Extraction”, Tiit Kaasik, Environmental Board

“Mineral Resources of Estonia”, Tarmo All, Ministry of Environment

“Waste Management challenges in Estonia” Ulvi-Karmen Möller, Ministry of Environment

“Cement production and waste management”, Riho Iskül, Kunda Nordic Cement, Heidelberg Group

"National Energytechnology Programme a way to sustainable economy", Jaanus Sahk,National Energytechnology Programme

“Oil Shale Competence Center”, Kalle Pirk, Oil Shale Competence Center, TUT

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