After 4.6 years-long research, the PLATIRUS project has successfully achieved its objectives to research, develop, evaluate and upscale novel and sustainable recycling technologies to recover platinum group metals from secondary waste sources. Thus, paving the way for a new supply chain and security of supply for the European industries.
The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project PLATIRUS (PLATInum group metals Recovery Using Secondary raw materials) presented its research results at a final online exploitation workshop on 21 April 2021. The online event #ExploitPLATIRUS marked the culmination of four years and six months of practice-orientated research and full-scale sustainable demonstrations on 11 recycling platinum group metals (PGMs) technologies through 3 main phases: leaching, separation and recovery.
The project results are joint efforts of 11 project partners from Europe who represent the whole market value chain:
During the final online exploitation workshop, the PLATIRUS consortium showcased the key outcomes of their years-long research on the advancement on the technical and scientific levels for the novel recycling technologies proposed as well as on the financial, economic, environmental and market impact of those technologies. More than 80 participants from the waste treatment, processing, refining sectors and end-users attended the seminar.
The final workshop featured presentations by 19 key speakers from TECNALIA, Monolithos, KU Leuven, Vienna University of Technology, VITO, SINTEF, CRF, Ford Otosan, Boliden Harjavalta Oy, Johnson Matthey and PNO Innovation. Additionally, a representative of the European Commission (EC) presented insights about the EC vision on supporting critical raw materials related activities in the new research programme Horizon Europe.
In the end of the workshop it was announced that 2 of the selected recovery and refining technologies developed to TRL 5 in the PLATIRUS project MW assisted leching and GDEx will be scaled up further to TRL 7 in a new EU-funded Horizon 2020 project PEACOC: Pre-commercial pilot for the efficient recovery of Precious Metals from European end-of-life resources with novel low-cost technologies.
The key objective of the PEACOC project is to demonstrate on a pre-commercial pilot scale at TRL 7, a novel, economically and environmentally viable metallurgical process for the recovery of precious metals from a wide variety of end-of-life products that are abundantly available in Europe. The project consortium has 19 partners from 10 European countries and Turkey that represents the whole industrial value chain. The project will be coordinated by TECNALIA and will run for 4 years starting May 2021.
Find out more about the final PLATIRUS results and outcomes in the final project newsletter #8.
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