HYDROWEEE
Innovative Hydrometallurgical Processes to recover Metals from WEEE including lamps and batteries
| Coordinatore | OSTERREICHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUER SYSTEM- UND AUTOMATISIERUNGSTECHNIK
Organization address
address: GURKGASSE 43/2 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Austria [AT] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.sat-research.at/hydroWEEE/ |
| Totale costo | 1˙115˙380 € |
| EC contributo | 825˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2008-1 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-03-01 - 2012-02-29 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OSTERREICHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUER SYSTEM- UND AUTOMATISIERUNGSTECHNIK
Organization address
address: GURKGASSE 43/2 contact info |
AT (WIEN) | coordinator | 39˙610.00 |
| 2 |
ECO RECYCLING S.R.L.
Organization address
address: via Monticelli SNC contact info |
IT (Civita Castellana (VT)) | participant | 276˙075.00 |
| 3 |
Greentronics
Organization address
address: Viilor 15 contact info |
RO (Alexandria) | participant | 205˙935.00 |
| 4 |
COMPANY FOR MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGICAL RESEARCHES SE TRADE DOO BELGRADE
Organization address
address: Slanacki put 26 contact info |
RS (Belgrade) | participant | 139˙175.00 |
| 5 |
RELIGHT SRL
Organization address
address: VIA LAINATE 98/100 contact info |
IT (RHO) | participant | 130˙555.00 |
| 6 |
INSTITUT MIHAJLO PUPIN
Organization address
address: VOLGINA 15 contact info |
RS (BEOGRAD) | participant | 11˙070.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI L'AQUILA
Organization address
address: PIAZZA VINCENZO RIVERA 1 contact info |
IT (L'AQUILA) | participant | 9˙834.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE
Organization address
address: PIAZZA ROMA 22 contact info |
IT (ANCONA) | participant | 6˙756.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
Organization address
address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 5˙990.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The recycling business is traditionally dominated by SMEs. In the last 2-3 years a general trend in the electronics recycling sector to bigger companies is very visible. Multinational, multisector companies are buying several smaller recyclers every year. This trend is caused by 2 factors: • Many countries transposed the WEEE- and Battery Directives in a way relying heavily on collective systems. • Also the big secondary raw material processors are more interested in few big contracts instead of a lot of small contracts as this brings down their administrative costs. Therefore it is close to impossible to sell materials with a high metal concentration for SMEs at the moment. Therefore the HydroWEEE project deals with the recovery of base and precious metals from WEEE including lamps and spent batteries by hydrometallurgical processes. The idea is to develop a mobile plant using hydrometallurgical processes to extract metals like Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn), Yttrium (Y), Indium (In), … in a high purity (above 95%). By making this plant mobile (in a container) several SMEs can benefit from the same plant at different times and therefore limit the necessary quantities of waste as well as investments. In addition this new HydroWEEE process will produce pure enough materials that they can be directly used by end-users for electroplating. Because of this 2 levels of intermediaries from today (bigger recyclers and secondary material processors) will be bypassed. This will make the SMEs much more competitive than today and reverse the general trend to bigger companies. The HydroWEEE consortium has 9 partners from 4 countries - 3 EU Member States (Austria, Romania, Italy) and a Western Balkan Country (Serbia). All in all it has been calculated that HydroWEEE generates a turnover in excess of 100 million € and about 150 interesting work places within the SMEs – approximately 100 times the total cost of the project or 130 times the EU-funding'
Introduzione (Teaser)
A research project is aiming to help small companies regain their share of the growing market in waste electronics recycling. They are developing a mobile processing plant to recover metals from used equipment.