Processing of critical raw materials from specific waste streams

A consortium of enterprises and universities has merged to develop innovative approaches und fundamentals for processing and recovery of certain critical raw materials from defined Austrian waste streams.

These are:

1. Waste streams of waste treatment plants,
2. waste and by-products from special industrial processes and
3. landfilled waste.

The three waste sources and the framework are shown in the figure below.

• Identification, characterisation and quantification of relevant waste streams und by-products,
• visualisation and modelling of the system as well as a forecast of future critical raw material content,
• (further) development of processing and separating methods and sensor-based sorting of critical raw materials and
• production of metal concentrates and verification of their recyclability / suitability for metallurgical processes.