SOLVOMET/SIM2 KU Leuven and VITO researchers developed a process to recover copper, zinc and lead from chloride leachates of photovoltaic panel residues. The work, which was published in RSC Advances, was performed in the framework of the H2020 MSCA-ETN SULTAN...
SOLVOMET members have developed a closed-loop, green, and environmentally-friendly process to recover REEs from lamp phosphor waste using methanesulfonic acid (MSA). This new process can sequentially recover, with outstanding selectivity, three different lamp phosphor...
“Rare-earth recycling needs market intervention” … that’s the title of the Nature Reviews Materials Comment article (Impact Factor = 75) by SOLVOMET/SIM² KU Leuven researchers Koen Binnemans and Peter Tom Jones. For this Comment piece they who worked together with...
SOLVOMET/SIM2 KU Leuven researchers have developed three different routes to recover and purify Pd, Pt and Rh from spent autocatalysts. One of these routes (liquid-liquid extraction) was selected for industrial validation together with two other technologies developed...
As an external collaborator in the AWARE project we also conducted eco-workshops for children in Slovenia in order to present them e-waste and its proper handling. In the company ZEOS, d.o.o. from Slovenia, we have been dealing with the proper management of e-waste...
The EIT RawMaterials AWARE project aims to raise public awareness about Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). AWARE educates primary school children about the importance of recycling e-waste and re-integrating products into the circular economy. In this...
