Description du projet
Recyclage des métaux du groupe du platine
Les métaux du groupe du platine (MGP) sont parmi les éléments les plus rares de la Terre. Largement utilisé dans les secteurs de l’automobile, de l’électronique et de l’exploitation minière, l’offre de platine ne parvient pas à répondre à la demande croissante. Bien que les MGP puissent être récupérés à partir de sources secondaires, les méthodes de recyclage actuelles consomment beaucoup d’énergie et sont polluantes. C’est pourquoi le projet PLATIRUS, financé par l’UE, vise à rechercher, concevoir et valider des technologies durables et peu coûteuses pour séparer et récupérer les MGP des convertisseurs catalytiques usagés, des équipements miniers et électroniques. Il évaluera et sélectionnera les technologies les plus efficaces et les plus rentables, qui feront ensuite l’objet d’une démonstration et d’un perfectionnement. En définitive, le projet donnera aux industries de l’UE un avantage concurrentiel en augmentant l’approvisionnement en ressources pour créer de nouveaux produits durables.
Objectif
The PLATIRUS project aims at reducing the European deficit of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), by upscaling to industrial relevant levels a novel cost-efficient and miniaturised PGMs recovery and raw material production process. The targeted secondary raw materials will be autocatalysts, electronic waste (WEEE) and tailings and slags from nickel and copper smelters, opening-up an important range of alternative sources of these critical raw materials, with the potential to substitute a large amount of primary raw materials which are becoming more and more scarce in Europe.
For the first time five of the major research centres in Europe will collaborate in developing and fine tuning the most advanced recovery processes for PGMs. This joint effort will lead to a unique exchange of know-how and best practices between researchers all over Europe, aiming at the selection of the recycling process and the preparation of the Blueprint Process Design that will set the basis for a new PGM supply chain in the EU.
Two primary and secondary material producers with a consolidated business model will carry out validation of the innovative recovery processes in an industrially relevant environment by installing and testing them in an industrially relevant environment and benchmarking with the currently adopted recovery processes. A recycling company will provide a link to market introduction by manufacturing autocatalysts with second-life PGMs obtained via the PLATIRUS technology. Two large automotive companies will validate the material produced through the new recovery process, and ensure end-user industry driven value chains for recovered PGM materials. LCA, economic and environment assessment of the whole process will be led by a specialized consultancy company. Finally, the PLATIRUS project will be linked to European and extra-European relevant stakeholders, research activities and industries, with a solid dissemination, communication and exploitation plan.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrytransition metals
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
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