BIOLIX

Bio-hydrometallurgical beneficiation of non-ferrous concentrate from Polymetallic shredder residue

Coordinatore	COMET TRAITEMENTS SA    more  Organization address address: Rivage de Boubier 25 contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Pierre-francois Cognome: BAREEL Email: send email Telefono: -496168886 Fax: -71240057
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Belgium [BE]
Totale costo	2˙080˙297 €
EC contributo	1˙040˙148 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	CIP-EIP-Eco-Innovation-2011
Funding Scheme	CIP-EIP-EI-PMRP
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-10-01   -   2015-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	COMET TRAITEMENTS SA	BE	coordinator	0.00
2	UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE  Organization address city: LIEGE contact info Titolo: Professor Nome: Stoyan Cognome: GAYDARDZHIEV Email: send email Telefono: -43669089	BE (LIEGE)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Despite the urge for the European Union to secure and sustain its access to base, precious and critical metals, poly-metallic concentrates recovered from shredder residues (from ELVs, WEEE, collection scraps, etc) are typically processed by pyrometallurgical processes. Nevertheless, these processes are often not adapted for that kind of heterogeneous polymetallic concentrates. Most of the critical metals (for example gallium and indium) and rare earth metals are lost by dissemination in the slags. Recent advances in hydrometallurgy open tangible possibilities to improve the base metal recovery and allow the valorization of these strategic metals. BIOLIX aims to scale up the beneficiation of polymetallic shredding residues by using bacterially assisted leaching system resulting directly from a prior high competivity R&D project supported by the Walloon Government (PHOENIX project), which allows the selective recovery of base metal while concentrating precious and critical metals as well as rare earth metals into enriched substrates. Compared to Best Available Technologies, BIOLIX has numerous economic and environmental benefits such as significant reduction of primary resources extraction, improvement of recycling efficiency and reduction of CO2 emissions.