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SUSTAINABLE PROCESSING OF RAW MATERIALS

Associate Professor D. Panias

National Technical University of Athens School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Laboratory of Metallurgy

Raw Materials University Day 19/06/2014 Athens, Greece

Global Iron and Steel

Production

Global Copper Production

Global Aluminum Production

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Global Iron and Steel Production

Global REOs Production Global Aluminum

Production

Raw Materials University Day 19/06/2014 Athens, Greece

Raw Materials University Day 19/06/2014 Athens, Greece

Raw Materials University Day 19/06/2014 Athens, Greece

Social

Economic Environment

Sustainable

Via

ble

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Redesign of Industrial Production through Innovative Raw Materials Processing

The 3 Pillars

Environment Economy

Society

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The series of unit operations that

transforms industrial materials from

a raw material state into

finished parts or products is called

processing

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Conc.

Refined Metal

Product

Scrap

&

EOL

Ore

Beneficiation Processes

Metallurgical Processes

Extractive

Metallurgy

Physical Metallurgy

Materials Technology

Products Manufacturing

Use of Product

Recycling Processes

RC = the fraction of metal scrap in the total metal input

of fabricated

metal

UNEP Status Report of 2011 on the Recycling Rates of Metals

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Raw Materials University Day 19/06/2014 Athens, Greece

European Aluminium Association (EAA)

& Organization of

European Aluminium Refiners and Remelters

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Handbook of Recycling

E. Worrell

& M.A. Reuter

Elsevier 2014

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Raw Materials University Day 19/06/2014 Athens, Greece

Urban Mining is an emerging field for innovations

New Business Models

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Landfills host

almost everything

Energy Production

Materials Recycling

Sustainable Nature

Smaller & Modern Landfills

Policy & Legislation

Issues

Culture aspects

Market Issues

Business & Organization

Models

Engineered Systems

&

Processing Routes

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Raw Materials Processing

Primary/Secondary Raw Materials

Marketable Products

Aqueous wastes

Gaseous wastes

Solid wastes or

Residues

Disposal Site

Valorization

Solid wastes or

Residues

Modern and Smaller Disposal

Site

New Business Models

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Chemical

Species

%wt

(dry basis)

Fe2O3 47.74%

Al2O3 16.22%

CaO 10.73%

SiO2 6.09%

TiO2 5.93%

Na2O 2.51%

V2O5 0.21%

-SO3 0.60%

-CO2 1.63%

H2O(cry) 8.35%

Resource for Pig-Iron Production

Common Resources for Mineral Wool

production

Red Mud

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Red Mud

Pig Iron

Mineral Wool

CO2 off-gases

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Environment Economy

Society

BRAVO: Holistic Approach on Primary Aluminum Production

Al-Ore

Optimising the alumina and aluminium manufacturing process to increase the intrinsic value and recyclability of by-products including red mud

Al-Source

Recovers critical metals from RM (Ga, Ti, Se, Ge, Dy, Ce)

Al-Build

Produces construction

Materials from RM

Al-Aware

public awareness, acceptance and trust regarding aluminium sector activities and generation and

management of red mud Al-

Chain

Undertakes all the Innovation & Commercialization activities (IP, New Strategies & Business models, Market Analysis, Policy Issues etc)

Al-Chain

More Sustainable

Primary Aluminum

Production

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FineNi: Processing of low grade fine feeds

Processing

in

DC or AC EAFs

Fines

Converting FeNi

Slag

FeNi Alloy to Market

Valorization Techs

Fe Recovery

Residue Valorization in Construction sector

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