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Ben Gilliams: “Pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy are like yin and yang”
Following a 25-year, Vice-President level career at Umicore mainly focusing on operations, process technology, engineering and business development, Dr. Ben Gilliams decided to make a major career...
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Koen Binnemans is awarded a second ERC Advanced Grant: CIRMET
The news is in: Prof. Koen Binnemans (SOLVOMET KU Leuven) has just been awarded a second ERC Advanced Grant for his groundbreaking project on developing a solid basis for circular hydrometallurgy...
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Testimonials for Ionic liquids & deep-eutectic solvents “dead-end street paper”
“The use of ionic liquids & deep-eutectic solvents in extractive metallurgy is a dead-end street”. This inconvenient truth forms the conclusion of a new Open Access paper in Journal of Sustainable...
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The making of “Made in Europ: from mine to Electric Vehicle”
“Make no mistake. The tsunami of cheap, subsidised Chinese Electric Vehicles is coming. Europe seems to have been sleepwalking into an abyss”, that’s the opening statement of SIM²’s new documentary...
View Article“Without local raw materials, state aid for EU battery factories is futile”
The success of BYD’s electric cars shows how Europe is losing the competition with China in yet another sector. In this op-ed, published in De Tijd (13 January 2024), Peter Tom Jones argues that, in a...
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SOLVOMET validates its LiCl to LiOH conversion process in an extraction column
In May 2020, SOLVOMET filed the patent application “Method for producing battery grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate” (priority date: 2020-05-13). The patent application (WO2021228936A1, Prof. Koen...
View ArticleSelective Lead Extraction from Zinc Calcine and Zinc Leaching Residue
In the framework of the H2020 MSCA-ETN SULTAN project (https://etn-sultan.eu/), researchers from VITO and KU Leuven collaborated on a project aimed at developing an innovative solvometallurgical...
View ArticleLithium recycling from pyrometallurgically-processed spent Li-ion batteries (II)
How can one recycle lithium from spent Li-ion batteries (LIBs) when a pyrometallurgical route is chosen? In a new paper by HiTemp researchers of the KU Leuven Institute for Sustainable Metals and...
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Join us at ICHS 2024 Symposium (9-11 Sep 2024, Mechelen)
The full programme for ICHS 2024 (First International Symposium on Circular Hydrometallurgy, Mechelen, Belgium, 9-11 September 2024) is available. Early-bird registration deadline is 15 June 2024. Full...
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Upgrading FeNi towards battery-grade Ni using continuous counter-current SX
SOLVOMET/SIM² researchers have successfully demonstrated a hydrometallurgical flowsheet for upgrading ferronickel (Class-II nickel) into battery grade nickel (Class-I nickel) in a mini-pilot SX...
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