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Register for SIM² General Assembly Meeting – 10FEBRUARY 2022 (13.30-17.15h)

MS TEAMS ON-LINE EVENT PROGRAMME Timing Item Speakers 13.30-14:00h Welcome & status overview SIM² Peter Tom Jones 14:00-15.15h Pitch presentations by NEW ZAP SIM² members + 1 Q&A session after the last presentation Xing Yang, Giuseppe Granata, Veerle Vandeginste, Anouk Borst, Olivier Namur 15.15-15.45h Coffee break 15.45-16.45h SIM² Café: Parallel Sessions/Workshop formula: Task Force Batteries (JP) – MS Teams: Click here to join the meeting – Link 2 New …

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Free online hydrometallurgy course

Hydrometallurgy in raw materials utilization – an educational and communication programme HydroMetEC is a lifelong learning program organized within EIT Raw Materials academy, coordinated by NTNU. It will educate engineers from industry, scientist at RTOs, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students about hydrometallurgy. Employees from mining, metallurgical, recycling and chemical industry are welcome to …

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Register for the DEMETER Closing Symposium (5-7 Feb’ 2019)

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ETN DEMETER (Design and Recycling of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Motors and Generators in Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles) organises the DEMETER Closing Symposium in Feb’ 2019 (together with SIM² KU Leuven, GloREIA and Valeo).

Circular Economy & Raw material experts meet in Vienna

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The EU project CROCODILE will organise a session on Cobalt recovery during Going Green CARE INNOVATION 2018 on Nov 28 2018 in Vienna (Austria). The event is highly relevant for experts working on raw materials and circular economy

Milestone biohydrometallurgy event in Orléans on 10-10-2018

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PROMETHEE & BRGM are organising a milestone workshop dedicated to biohydrometallurgy on October 10, 2018. The event is highly relevant for researchers working in the EU projects CROCODILE, NEMO, METGROW+, ETN SULTAN & SOCRATES…

DEMETER Summer School

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August 24 – August 26

REDMUD Summer School

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August 29 – August 31

Unravelling the chemistry within non-aqueous solvent extraction

SOLVOMET/SIM² researchers have published their research on the effect of polar organic solvents on the solvent extraction process for rare-earth separation. The research was performed in the framework of the read more >>
Five Lessons Learned from the (Re)Mining Symposium (May 17-18, 2022)

To remine or not to remine extractive waste in Europe? That was the core question during the symposium “(Re)Mining Extractive Waste, A new business?” (Mechelen, May 17-18, 2022). SIM² Director read more >>
Global perspectives on reprocessing of mine tailings (High-level expert panel)

On March 10, 2022, the joint NEMO/CROCODILE/TARANTULA expert panel discussed the “Global perspectives on the reprocessing of mine tailings”. The objective was to find common ground and to enable the read more >>
SIM² wins prestigious HE project on battery-grade Ni/Co production (ENICON)

SIM² KU Leuven has secured Horizon Europe funding for the RIA ENICON project, which stands for “Sustainable processing of Europe’s low-grade sulphidic and lateritic nickel/cobalt ores and tailings into battery-grade read more >>
A new CSLM-based approach to study metallurgical slag solidification

SIM² KU Leuven’s HiTemp Group developed an innovative experimental setup to measure the electrical conductivity of slag while observing slag crystallisation. The results were published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
Boosting the repair & recycling options for EoL electrical consumer products

The Lifecycle Engineering research group (SIM²) has explored a new procedure to identify EoL electrical products by evaluating an image of the device’s product label. The work was published in read more >>

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Five Lessons Learned from the (Re)Mining Symposium (May 17-18, 2022)

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Global perspectives on reprocessing of mine tailings (High-level expert panel)

May 10, 2022

SIM² wins prestigious HE project on battery-grade Ni/Co production (ENICON)

April 20, 2022

A new CSLM-based approach to study metallurgical slag solidification

April 20, 2022

Boosting the repair & recycling options for EoL electrical consumer products

April 15, 2022

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