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Energy efficiency and lower production costs for the cork industry, is what the ERGOSUBER project is about.

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ERGOSUBER is an innovative project with which it is intended to improve the production processes of the cork industry.

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It aims to introduce renewable energies into the companies that process cork,

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 in particular solar energy and biomass, with a view to saving energy costs in cork processing.

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Besides, it also proposes an alternative solution to purifying the residual water generated by boiling cork,

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and intends to extract a series of compounds present in this water, of commercial interest, to help endow it with value.

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The main use of cork is in bottling.

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To make it usable, cork has to be boiled for at least an hour.

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With this in mind, ERGOSUBER has applied an advanced technology based on solar energy.

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The work carried out so far, jointly with the solar platform of Almería,

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which is another of the members of the project,

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is the design, development and installation of two prototypes on a semi-industrial scale, here on IPROCOR's premises.

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One of the prototypes is an innovative solar concentrator system

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with which you can get close to two hundred degrees C,

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a temperature that can't be reached by conventional thermal collectors.

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The range of this temperature allows us to maintain the ninety-five degrees necessary for boiling cork.

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In addition, the other prototype is one of solar decontamination in which,

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with the optimal combination of reactant and solar radiation, we intend to purify the residual waters.

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Portugal and Extremadura are the world's main producers of cork,

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 and this is why developing this project in the Euroace region is important.

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The results will be of great benefit to the cork-producing community.

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The result expected is finding, through the tests carried out on both prototypes, the optimal, most viable solution,

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from both the technical and economic perspectives,

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which permit the cork-producing industries of the EUROACE region

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to improve their competitiveness and save on production costs.

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This is how it helps to boost a sector fundamental to the economy on both sides of the frontier.