Objective
The CROCODILE project will showcase innovative metallurgical systems based on advanced pyro-, hydro-, bio-, iono- and electrometallurgy technologies for the recovery of cobalt and the production of cobalt metal and upstream products from a wide variety of secondary and primary European resources. CROCODILE will demonstrate the synergetic approaches and the integration of the innovative metallurgical systems within existing recovery processes of cobalt from primary and secondary sources at different locations in Europe, to enhance their efficiency, improve their economic and environmental values, and will provide a zero-waste strategy for important waste streams rich in cobalt such as batteries. Additionally, CROCODILE will produce a first of a kind economically and environmentally viable mobile commercial metallurgical system based on advanced hydrometallurgical and electrochemical technologies able to produce cobalt metal from black mass containing cobalt from different sources of waste streams such as spent batteries and catalysts. The new established value chain in this project will bring together for the first time major players who have the potential of supplying 10,000 ton of cobalt annually in the mid-term range from European resources, corresponding to about 65% of the current overall EU industrial demand. Therefore, the project will reduce drastically the very high supply risk of cobalt for Europe, provide SMEs with novel business opportunities, and consolidate the business of large refineries with economically and environmentally friendly technologies and decouple their business from currently unstable supply of feedstocks.
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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67900 Kokkola
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4606 Kristiansand
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400 40 Goteborg
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00197 Roma
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15125 MAROUSI ATHINA
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30030 FOSSO'
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46100 BURJASSOT
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1130 Wien
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85500 Nivala
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47809 Krefeld
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8073 Feldkirchen
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12110 Viviez
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6200 Chatelet
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11476 Athina
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48170 ZAMUDIO
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1930 Zaventem
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41300 LA RINCONADA (SEVILLA)
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CV34 6PU Warwick
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3000 Leuven
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7034 Trondheim
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SW7 5BD London
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LL57 2DG Bangor
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45060 Orleans
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