The 16. International Rare Earth Conference of Metal Events Ltd.
The 16th International Rare Earth Conference of Metal Events Ltd. has moved from Hong Kong - please note the new hotel and location for this event. Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 6th to 8th 2019 The special rate of £ 1.200 per person expires on September 18th and increases to […]
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Second project for battery cell production stands
Second battery cell production project is under way Representatives from nine EU countries decide on work program in BMWi Nine European states decided on the work program for a second European battery network on September 4th in Berlin. At a European workshop on September 4th on battery cell production in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), representatives of governments and around 30 companies met [...]
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Kick-off of the SUSMAGPRO project in Pforzheim
Revolutionizing the recycling of permanent magnets August 1.08.2019, 2019 - In June 2020 the first phase of a four-year EU-funded research and innovation project began with a kick-off event in Pforzheim. The SUSMAGPRO project (full title: Sustainable recovery, recycling and reuse of rare earth magnets in a circular economy) is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 19 program. XNUMX project partners are involved in this [...]
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Clean and effective recycling of electronic waste
A photograph of the plasma discharge at t = 0 seconds. Taken with a color high-speed camera, this image shows the pulse discharge effect on the metal (Al) layer (blue color) as well as its effect on the plastic layer (orange color). [Image details] CREDIT: Prof. Hamid Hosano USAGE RESTRICTIONS: Reprinted from Waste Management, vol. [...]
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A solar star is born: GE and Blackrock form a new solar power plant
Image source: GE Reports 22.07.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - GE and BlackRock, the giant investment firm with trillions of trillions of assets under management, have agreed to build a new powerhouse for the solar industry. As Distributed Solar Development, the company will design, build, own and operate distributed solar and storage solutions for customers. The new company will build on the foundation of the solar business of [...]
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Finest raw material particles - from the bubble bath (back) win
Critical raw materials such as copper, cobalt or rare earths often appear in their deposits as increasingly smaller ore grains. This means that they are too small for the usual separation by flotation. The FineFuture project partners now want to research the flotation of very fine mineral particles and develop new technological solutions for it. Rising prices and growing global demand for [...]
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New technology brings rare earth from electronic waste
A young US company has developed a process for recovering rare earth elements from electronic waste. The futurezone asked. With his start-up Reecycle (Ree stands for Rare Earth Elements, note), the 25-year-old US entrepreneur Casey McNeil offers a process that allows valuable rare earths to be recovered from electronic waste and at a profit. "We have an organic [...]
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Molecular containers for the extraction of rare earths: New research project "SE-FLECX" started
Rare earths are in great demand because they are required for the manufacture of many high-tech products. However, their extraction from ores is expensive and often polluting. Experts from research and industry, coordinated by the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, are currently testing whether so-called calixarenes could be used as alternative extraction agents in industrial separation processes. Due to their special chemical [...]
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Research at TU Clausthal: Recycling for high quality magnets
A research project at the Clausthal University of Technology relies on the magnetic material neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB). The aim is to extract from production and consumer waste that contains rare earths with NdFeB. According to the TU Clausthal, there are no industrially implemented recycling processes for these magnets. Clausthal-Zellerfeld. To solve this problem, a consortium consisting of [...]
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Thuringian researchers want to establish recycling of rare earths in this country
Metals of the so-called rare earths are found in most electronic devices today. The Thuringian researcher Ralf Müller wants to promote the recycling of such materials in this country. Weimar. Who likes to forego quality of life - most people take electricity from the socket as a matter of course, as do using a mobile phone. But for all of this to work smoothly, [...]
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