Creaternity – sustainable material use in a connected and circular economy (2020-...)

The transition to a sustainable industry provides opportunities to think new and thus develop the whole society. The latest technology in artificial intelligence, telecommunications and sensor technology allows us to connect people, products and processes.

Creaternity

Creaternity is a strategic investment made by Luleå University of Technology in some future research areas.

The research in this field uses digitalisation to achieve a circular use of materials and efficent use of energy and thus a carbon dioxide- and resource-neutral society. By gathering researchers from a large number of subjects within Luleå University of Technology, a holistic approach to the industry's and societies' sustainability challenges is used to aim at new innovations. This implies to study the technology needed to follow a material throughout the circular flow, and how humans are affected. Creaternity uses the possibilities of digitalisation to achieve a circular use of materials.

Energy and nutrient local food production (ENSYM)

Within Creaternity, several projects are carried out. ENSYM is one of the projects and focuses on heat and mass transfer in the concentration of blackwater for production of a sustainable urban fertilizer.

The overall aim of this project is to recover all nutrients from wastewater, safely and efficiently to create a fertilizer product for agriculture.

This Creaternity project is a cooperation carried out by researchers from the research groups Urban water engineering and Control engineering at Luleå University of Technology.

Andreas Johansson, Stephanie Rusch Fehrmann, Annelie Hedström, Elisabeth Kvarnström and Inga Herrmann