📋 Tender Overview
Heavy And Extractive Industry Wastes Phasing Out Through Esg Tailings Upcycling Synergy
Recovering Important Metals From Low-Grade Ores And Wastesolutions For Sustainable Mineral And Metallurgical Waste Management Are More Than Ever Required. The Eu-Funded Hephaestus Aims To Develop A Set Of Scalable And Tuneable Unit Operations To Effectively Treat Waste Derived From Primary Mining And Metallurgical Streams. The Researchers Will Design Units To Transform The Dust From The Electric Arc Furnaces Into Metal Alloys And Recover Zinc From This Dust. Other Units Will Be Responsible For The Catalytic Conversion Of Co2 Gas Into Methanol Or Formic Acid. The Hephaestus Small-Scale Units Will Be Able To Treat Around 10 000 Tonnes Of Waste Dust Per Year. Prototype Demonstrations Will Take Place In Greece And Italy.
Funded Under
Digital, Industry And Space
Total Cost
€ 16 046 783,75
Eu Contribution
€ 11 966 323,00
Coordinated By
Rina Consulting Spa
Italy
