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“Bauxite Residue Valorisation and Best Practices” Conference – Leuven, October 2015

The “Bauxite Residue Valorisation and Best Practices” Conference took place in Leuven in October 2015.

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“(Re)mining extractive waste – Perspectives for the EU?” (November 15, Brussels)

SAVE THE DATE for the satellite event of the EU Raw Materials Week “(Re)mining extractive waste – Perspectives for the EU?” (Closing NEMO event – Le Plaza Hotel, Brussels, 15 read more >>
Systematic quantification of Waste Electric & Electronic Equipment plastics

The KU Leuven’s lifecycle engineering (LCE) research group (SIM² – KU Leuven) has explored a new methodology to systematically quantify the composition of WEEE plastics. The work was published in read more >>
How green are choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents?

SOLVOMET/SIM2 researchers have demonstrated in the journal Green Chemistry that choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents (DESs) are not stable during high-temperature leaching processes for cobalt recovery.
Real-time classification of Al scrap with LIBS using deep/machine learning

The KU Leuven’s lifecycle engineering (LCE) research group (SIM² – KU Leuven) has explored a new methodology using Deep Learning (DL) for the classification of spectra of scrap metals. The read more >>
Zinc fuming kinetics in a bubble-stirred molten slag bath (for slag recycling)

SIM² KU Leuven’s HiTemp Group studied the zinc fuming kinetics in a bubble-stirred molten slag bath in view of the recovery of Zn from Zn-bearing slags. The results were published read more >>
Francisco Veiga Simão obtains PhD on using sulphidic mining waste in building ceramics

Francisco Veiga Simão obtains PhD on “Sustainable use of (cleaned) sulphidic mining waste in building ceramics”.

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Recovery of lithium and other metals
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Waste from the past, houses for the future

EU MSCA-ETN SULTAN

Recycling the strongest metals

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THE MISSING LINK

of the Circular Economy 2.0

5th Enhanced Lanfill Mining Symposium

The Dark Side of the Circular Economy

CHARMING

Immersive learning in Chemical Engineering

SOCRATES

Stairway to Sustainability - Research on recycling of industrial waste

SULTAN

Transforming mining waste (tailings) into valuable products

DEMETER

First Recycled Electric Motor

COSMIC

Europe on the wave to innovation

CROCODILE

Efficient recovery of cobalt

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Systematic quantification of Waste Electric & Electronic Equipment plastics

September 2, 2022

How green are choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents?

August 30, 2022

Real-time classification of Al scrap with LIBS using deep/machine learning

August 24, 2022

Zinc fuming kinetics in a bubble-stirred molten slag bath (for slag recycling)

August 24, 2022

Francisco Veiga Simão obtains PhD on using sulphidic mining waste in building ceramics

August 15, 2022

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