Compliant and fully AUToMATed circular solutions for multiple battery and battery embedded device enhanced by digital solutions
The goal is to develop advanced circular solutions for batteries and electrical and electronic equipment components, implement digital platforms, deliver new recycling technologies that reduce the environmental footprint of CRMs, and provide digital passports for second-life applications, contributing to the green and digital transitions in the EU.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101138532. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Sustainable, Decarbonised Co-Extraction Of Vanadium And Titanium Minerals From Europe’s Low-Grade Vanadium-Bearing Titanomagnetite Deposits
The goal is to help achieve the benchmark of 10% domestic extraction in the EU’s CRM Act, by developing a low-carbon, multi-metal extraction approach for Europe’s low-grade under/unexploited, vanadium-bearing titanomagnetite (Ti-V-Fe-(P)) deposits (and mining wastes) in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Poland and Ukraine.
The project has received funding from Horizon-RIA Grant Agreement 101137552. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Recycling of end of life battery packs for domestic raw material supply chains and enhanced circular economy
The goal is to develop and demonstrate two innovative pilot systems for sustainable recycling and end of life management of EV batteries, domestic batteries, and battery scraps contributing to the generation of secondary streams of strategically important CRMs and battery raw materials.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101058359. The Horizon Europe Project BATRAW is supported by the UKRI funding programme. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here CICERO. MSA-based circular hydrometallurgy for sustainable, cost-effective production of NMC cathode materials
The goal is to tackle the twin problems of Europe’s dependence on a few third countries for refined Ni, Co and Mn salts, and develop a sustainable and cost-effective processing and refining model, and their downstream conversion into “made-in-Europe” NMC materials for Li-ion batteries. been provided by UK funding agency. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101137560.
Click Here Sustainable processing of Europe’s low-grade sulphidic and lateritic nickel/cobalt ores and tailings into battery-grade metals
The goal is to improve the refining capacity of domestic and imported low-grade Ni/Co. Its metal recovery route using hydrochloric acid dispenses with the old-school hydro-based approach that involves continuously precipitating and redissolving metals. Thus, it reduces the amount of chemicals needed for metal dissolution, which result in the production of potentially harmful waste streams.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101058124. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Cost-effective, sustainable and responsible extraction routes for recovering distinct critical metals and industrial minerals as by-products from key European hard-rock lithium projects.
The goal is to develop, upscale and demonstrate cost-effective, sustainable and responsible extraction routes for recovering CRMs and industrial minerals (the latter for use as low-carbon ceramics and cements).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101091543. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Feasible recovery of critical raw materials through a new circular ecosystem for a Li-ion battery cross-value chain in Europe.
The goal is to develop technologies to achieve six new sustainable and efficient processes to recycle end-of-life LIBs. The project will also deliver three processes aimed at reuse of metals and polymers and electrode synthesis for remanufacturing new LIB battery packs based on the design for recycling. The use of Battery Passports will overcome the current lack of access to open data in the LIB value chain.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme, under the Grant n°101069890. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Graphite Resilience For lithium-Ion baTtery anodes through a sustainable European End-to-End supply chain.
The goal is to create a whole new supply chain to achieve a more efficient production of lithium-ion batteries in Europe for use in electric vehicles and energy storage systems applications for solar and wind farms.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme, under the Grant n° 101103752. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here INERRANT. Integrating novel materials with scalable processes for safer and recyclable Li-ion batteries
The goal is to revolutionise battery safety and sustainability by developing innovative materials, advanced electrolyte formulations, and eco-friendly recycling methods, particularly for Gen 3 li-ion batteries. This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101147457. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Li4LIFE. Novel domestic battery grade lithium carbonate value chain for green life
The goal is to create an efficient technology for the extraction of lithium from poor or complex ores of underutilised deposits, as well as post-mining tailings, as the basis for the development of future clean energy. This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101137932. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Lithium recovery and battery-grade materials production from European resources
The goal is to establish the first-ever Li supply chain in Europe. The goal is to increase the European Li processing and refining capacity for producing battery-grade chemicals from ores, brines, tailings and off-specification battery cathode materials.
The project has received funding from the European Union under Grant Agreement No 101069644. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Cost-effective processing and refining of lithium into lithium hydroxide from strategic European multi-mineral lithium hard-rock projects
The goal is to adapt a responsible mining and refining approach by giving specific attention to closing the water loops in the mineral processing and by reducing the overall CO2 emissions.
The project has received funding from the Horizon Europe (Innovation Action – IA) Grant Agreement 101138112. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Demonstration of battery metals recovery from primary and secondary resources through a sustainable processing methodology
The goal is to recover valuable materials from primary and secondary resources, demonstrate sustainable production and recovery of (critical) battery metals, assess end-use of the recovered (critical) battery metals, identify and characterize (critical) battery metals with innovative technologies, enable social participation, stakeholder engagement and networking.
The project has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme under Grant agreement number 101091682. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here An Industry 4.0 digital twin for the mining industry: optimisation, automation, and robotisation
The goal is to build an open, sophisticated digital infrastructure as the foundation for a hyperconnected Mining Industry 4.0, while developing advanced, low‑impact and smart integrated solutions to support the sustainable discovery of strategic raw materials in Europe.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101091885. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Recycling of Lithium from Secondary Raw Materials and Further
The goal is to recover Li from potential secondary sources and reduce waste generation, which by proposing an integrated recycling facility for Li from secondary raw material sources with continuous processing to produce battery materials. Li wastes will be reduced by more than 70%, which will instead be recycled into high-value battery-grade material.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe MSCA programme under grant agreement No 641459. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Flexible, safe & efficient REcycling of Li-on batterieS for a comPetitive, circular, and sustainable European ManufaCTuring industry
The goal is to develop a global process encompassing a process-chain flexible enough to treat all kind of batteries in closed loop, considering the variability of Li-ion batteries chemistries, applications (EV and ESS) and states (aged, damaged, EoL, production scraps) by two recycling routes: full hydrometallurgy and direct recycling and an improved Life Cycle Assessment of each recycling segment to lower emissions and reduce secondary pollution, safety and health risks.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101069865. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Automated soRting and safE pre-procesSing of EoL BaTteries with nOvel smart and fast dismantling, and sepaRation technolgies for direct reuse of high purity materials in Energy storage application
The goal is to optimise current recycling processes without imposing companies to readjust their existing industrial setups, gy focusing on two established technical routes: dry mechanical and thermal treatment, and introducing two advanced methods: electrohydraulic fragmentation, and unwinding & delamination.
The project has received funding from the European Union under Grant Agreement N° 101192272. Part of the project is also funded by the SWISS funding. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Reuse of SOLar PV Panels and EV Batteries for low-cost decentralised energy solutions and effective Recycling of critical raw MATErials from their EoL products.
The goal is to establish a new industrial value chain for the sustainable reuse and recycling of PV solar panels and EV batteries, by developing low-cost decentralised energy systems and environmentally friendly technologies to improve material recovery.
The project has received funding from the European Union under Grant Agreement No 101138374. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here Batteries reuse and direct production of high performances cathodic and anodic materials and other raw materials from batteries recycling using low cost and environmentally friendly technologies
The goal is to develop, improve and demonstrate, in an industrially relevant environment, an economically and environmentally viable route for re-using, re-purposing, re-conditioning and recycling of EoL EV and stationary batteries.
The project has received funding from the European Union under Grant Agreement No 101069685. Visit their website for more information.
Click Here A Sustainable Ecosystem for the Innovative Resource Recovery and Complex Ore Extraction
The goal is to introduce the novel concept of the Zero Emission Mine of the Future, developing and validating innovative microinvasive technologies for sustainable and decarbonised extraction.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 101138432. Visit their website for more information.
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