first of a kind commercial Compact system for the efficient Recovery Of CObalt Designed with novel Integrated LEading technologies

Project Information

CROCODILE

Grant agreement ID: 776473

DOI 10.3030/776473

Project closed

EC signature date 20 April 2018

Start date 1 June 2018

End date 30 November 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 14 623 772,15

EU contribution € 11 625 289,01

Coordinated by

FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Spain

Deliverables

Documents, reports (9)

Standardisation of mobile plant
Ethic requirement report
Develop, monitor and implement Communication Dissemination plan

Develop monitor and implement Communication Dissemination plan

List of projects (vi)
Standardisation of stationary plant
Assessment of new future batteries and inventory study about other waste containing cobalt
Outcomes of workshops delivering a roadmap for the future of CRMs and market viability
List of projects (vf)

List of projects vf

Civil society engagement & Social License to Operate

Civil society engagement Social License to Operate

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Centre of excellence workshops for recovery of CRMs (v1)
Centre of excellence workshops for recovery of CRMs (v2)

Centre of excellence workshops for recovery of CRMs v2

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Solvometallurgical recovery of cobalt from lithium-ion battery cathode materials using deep-eutectic solvents

Author(s): Nand Peeters, Koen Binnemans, Sofía Riaño
Published in: Green Chemistry, Issue 22/13, 2020, Page(s) 4210-4221, ISSN 1463-9262
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0gc00940g

The Social Licence to Operate and the legitimacy of resource extraction

Author(s): Marieke Evelien Meesters; Piet Wostyn; Judith van Leeuwen; Jelle Hendrik Behagel; Esther Turnhout
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Issue 49, 2021, Page(s) 7 - 11, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.11.002

Chromium (VI) Inhibition of Low pH Bioleaching of Limonitic Nickel-Cobalt Ore

Author(s): Ana Laura Santos; Agnieszka Dybowska; Paul F. Schofield; Richard J. Herrington; Giannantonio Cibin; D. Barrie Johnson; D. Barrie Johnson
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 4, Vol 12, 2022, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.802991

Recovery of cobalt from lithium-ion battery cathode material by combining solvoleaching and solvent extraction

Author(s): Sofía Riaño; Nand Peeters; Koen Binnemans
Published in: Green Chemistry, 2022, ISSN 1463-9270
Publisher: royal society of chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1gc03776e

Sulfur-enhanced reductive bioprocessing of cobalt-bearing materials for base metals recovery

Author(s): Ana Laura Santos, Agnieszka Dybowska, Paul F. Schofield, Richard J. Herrington, D. Barrie Johnson
Published in: Hydrometallurgy, Issue 195, 2020, Page(s) 105396, ISSN 0304-386X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2020.105396

The Social Licence to Operate and the legitimacy of resource extraction

Author(s): Marieke Meesters, Piet Wostyn, Judith van Leeuwen, Jelle Hendrik Behagel, Esther Turnhout,
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2020, Page(s) Pages 7-11, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.11.002.

Bioleaching of Transition Metals From Limonitic Laterite Deposits and Reassessment of the Multiple Roles of Sulfur-Oxidizing Acidophiles in the Process.

Author(s): D. Barrie Johnson; D. Barrie Johnson; Sarah L. Smith; Ana Laura Santos
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 12, 2021, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.703177

Conference proceedings (1)

A Sustainable Process for the Recovery of Valuable Metals from Spent Lithium Ion Batteries by Deep Eutectic Solvents Leaching

Author(s): Lourdes Yurramendi; Jokin Hidalgo; Amal Siriwardana
Published in: International Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy (RAWMAT2021), Issue 5, 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.3390/materproc2021005100

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (1)

A PROCESS FOR RECOVERING COBALT ION, NICKEL ION AND MANGANESE ION FROM METAL-CONTAINING RESIDUES

Application/Publication number: 20 382720
Date: 2020-08-03
Applicant(s): FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION