Industrial waste residues evaluation

This report contains an evaluation of the main REE-containing industrial waste residues considered in WP1. The objectives are: (1) to characterize the input waste materials by analyzing the main chemical composition, with focus on the REE, and (2) to identify the most promising waste streams for further study in the REMAGHIC project. Relight provided the research partners with industrial waste recovered from electronic components. ITRB evaluated other industrial waste like phosphogypsum and metallurgical slags. An industrial waste material has been selected and Tecnalia carried out the analyses and gathered information on the homogeneity/heterogeneity of the waste material. The outcome is a waste classification according to the concentration of the most interesting REE for the project (Y, Ce, La), taking into account the information about the presence of other REE. The most interesting REE-containing waste streams are: fluorescent lamp phosphors, CRT phosphors and NiMH batteries. The selected materials were collected and sent to the research partners for evaluation of different recovery techniques within the other WP1 tasks. Ref. Ares(2016)2775100 - 15/06/2016H2020 - SPIRE - 2015 - Grant Agreement 680629 - Project REMAGHICREMAGHIC_Deliverable_1_1_V9