E4-CRITMAT

Engineering of Energy Efficient Extraction of Critical Materials- Application to the Processing of Niobium and Tantalum Minerals

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS    more  Organization address address: WOODHOUSE LANE city: LEEDS postcode: LS2 9JT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Martin Cognome: Hamilton Email: send email Telefono: +44 113 343 4090 Fax: +44 113 343 0949
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	221˙606 €
EC contributo	221˙606 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-04-01   -   2015-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS  Organization address address: WOODHOUSE LANE city: LEEDS postcode: LS2 9JT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Martin Cognome: Hamilton Email: send email Telefono: +44 113 343 4090 Fax: +44 113 343 0949	UK (LEEDS)	coordinator	221˙606.40

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Current situation: European Union (EU), economic growth is threatened by the unsecure supply of materials which affect main sectors of the economy such as the energy, health and digital. Historically the main resources of such mineral are located in few countries which either suffer from weak political structure or, belong to the growing economies in which the national strategies are promoting unfair competition especially in EU, thereby smothering growth within. Research Project Objectives: The E4-Crit-Mat MC is going to explain the general principles for demonstrating environmentally clean minerals and chemicals processing, which is based on alkali roasting treatment of mineral concentrates at elevated temperatures (900oC), followed by leaching and recovery of alkali by recycling CO2 and further refining. In E4-CritMat we primarily focus on the processing of Nb and Ta minerals, as a case study because of their importance in the EU’s micro-electronics, communication, and aerospace industries. Training Objectives: 1. Technological training involving high-temperature, aqueous chemical processing and characterization techniques, 2. Training in a business environment and learning its culture including exploitation and process economics analysis at the London & Scandinavian Metallurgical co in UK, 3. Enterprise training courses and its applications in industry for technology exploitation including the patent filing and licensing, 4. Environmental aspects of process engineering in mineral industry. Impact expected: 1. Provide the MC Fellow with the tools needed to reach a professional maturity. 2. Strengthen the EU companies in the market for Critical Materials via long term relationships with Brazil and helped in reducing significant environment impact. 3. Reduce the dependence of fossil fuels in terms of chemicals and energy consumption and enhance the development of energy efficiency devices, contributing to reduce the carbon footprint in EU.'