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Volume 65, Issue 1
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  • oa BIORECOVER: New Bio-based Technologies for Recapture of Critical Raw Materials

    Development of an innovative, sustainable and safe process from primary and secondary sources

  • Authors: Annette Alcasabas1, Felicity Massingberd-Mundy2, Barbara Breeze2, Maite Ruiz Pérez3 and Cristina Martínez García3
  • Affiliations: 1 Johnson Matthey260 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WEUK 2 Johnson MattheyBlounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9NHUK 3 Fundación Centro Tecnológico de Investigación Multisectorial (CETIM), Parque Empresarial de Alvedrocalle H, 20, 15180 Culleredo, A CoruñaSpain
  • Source: Johnson Matthey Technology Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Jan 2021, p. 151 - 157
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1595/205651320X15935988177157
    • Published online: 01 Jan 2021

Abstract

BIORECOVER brings together diverse expertise with the goal of developing a new sustainable and safe process, essentially based on biotechnology, for selective extraction of critical raw materials (CRMs), rare earth elements (REE), magnesium and platinum group metals (pgms). The four-year European Union (EU) H2020 project involves 14 international partners from mining, microbiology, chemistry, engineering, metallurgy, sustainable process development, as well as CRM end-users. Starting from relevant unexploited secondary and primary sources of CRMs, BIORECOVER will develop and integrate three stages for CRM extraction: (a) removal of major impurities present in raw materials; (b) mobilisation of CRMs through use of microorganisms; and (c) development of specific technologies for recovering metals with high selectivity and purity that meet the quality requirements for reuse. Downstream processes will be developed and recovered metals will be assessed by end-users. Modelling and integration of the modular stages and economic and environmental assessment will be done to develop the most effective and sustainable process. This short feature describes the aims and approach, project technologies and intended outputs of the BIORECOVER project.

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BIORECOVER: New Bio-based Technologies for Recapture of Critical Raw Materials
Johnson Matthey Technology Review 65, 151 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1595/205651320X15935988177157
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