Project description
Innovative recovery of minerals from seawater brines
The ancient process of saltworks involves the natural evaporation and fractionated crystallisation of seawater. This process also produces a by-product of brine that is free of calcium and includes some crucial elements at 20 to 40 times more concentrated levels than seawater does. The EU-funded SEArcularMINE project will take the brine to develop and integrate three innovative technologies within a circular procedure that will target magnesium, lithium and other trace elements belonging to the alkaline/alkaline Earth metals or transition/post-transition metals group. These innovative technologies will be based on three different processes: reactive crystallisation, selective membrane separation, and selective sorption/desorption. By adopting a multidisciplinary method, the project will improve knowledge of the processes needed to recover minerals from brines and seawater.
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywindpower
- engineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdesalinationelectrodialysis
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetals
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-SC5-2019-2
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
90133 Palermo
Italy
Participants (11)
2781-901 Oeiras
08034 Barcelona
6029 Zrig Gabes
92040 Paris La Defense Cedex
90128 Palermo
06800 Cankaya Ankara
D08H67X Dublin
91100 Trapani
80686 Munchen
02150 Espoo
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto