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EU funding (€5,262,199): Next generation urban mining - Automated disassembly, separation and recovery of valuable materials from electronic equipment Hor11 Aug 2015 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Next generation urban mining - Automated disassembly, separation and recovery of valuable materials from electronic equipment
Specific raw materials become increasingly important to manufacture high level industrial products. Especially electronic equipment contains precious metals and a series of strategic raw materials. To date the material specific recycling is focused on mass stream concepts such as shredder processes and metallurgy to extract the high-value metallic constituents, i.e. copper, gold, silver. However, a series of critical elements cannot be recovered efficiently or is even lost in dust or residual fractions. The goal of ADIR is to demonstrate the feasibility of a key technology for next generation urban mining. An automated disassembly of electronic equipment will be worked out to separate and recover valuable materials. The concept is based on image processing, robotic handling, pulsed power technology, 3D laser measurement, real-time laser material identification (to detect materials), laser processing (to access components, to selectively unsolder these; to cut off parts of a printed circuit board), and automatic separation into different sorting fractions. A machine concept will be worked out being capable to selectively disassemble printed circuit boards and mobile phones with short cycle times to gain sorting fractions containing high amounts of valuable materials. Examples are those materials with high economic importance and significant supply risk such as tantalum, rare earth elements, germanium, cobalt, palladium, gallium and tungsten. A demonstrator will be developed and evaluated in field tests at a recycling company. The obtained sorting fractions will be studied with respect to their further processing and recovery potential for raw materials. Refining companies will define requirements and test the processing of sorting fractions with specific material enrichments. An advisory board will be established incorporating three telecommunication enterprises.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| AURUBIS AG | €142,334 |
| ELECTROCYCLING GmbH | €450,888 |
| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG e. V. | €2,281,769 |
| H.C. STARCK GmbH | €111,141 |
| H.C. STARCK TANTALUM AND NIOBIUM GmbH | €63,053 |
| I-Cube Research | €111,935 |
| LSA-LASER ANALYTICAL SYSTEMS & AUTOMATION GmbH | €332,500 |
| Osai Automation System S.p.A. Societa' Benefit | €792,488 |
| PRO Automation GmbH | €189,185 |
| Siec Badawcza Lukasiewicz - Instytut Metali Niezelaznych | €687,375 |
| TRE TAU Engineering Srl | €99,531 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/680449
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