We develop technology and generate business opportunities for eco-industry and other industrial sectors, focusing our activities in solving their environmental problems …

1. We develop technology and generate business opportunities for eco-
industry and other industrial sectors, focusing our activities in
solving their environmental problems …
VALUE FROM WASTE
Recovery of materials
Our offer: improved processes in
• Hydrometallurgy
• Pyrometallurgy
• Ionometallurgy (based on ionic
liquids)
Applications
• Critical and strategic materials: neodymium, dysprosium, indium, gallium,
cobalt, tantalum, etc.
• Non ferrous metals from different flow waste and scrap (electronic, foundry,
etc)
• Metals and materials from metallurgical processes: filter dust, slags,
sandblasting
• Complex waste: metals associated to plastics, paper,…
For and from the industry
• Electronic (WEEE)
• End of life vehicles
• Waste management industry
• Foundry
• Steel making
Reuse of waste
Applications (waste type)
• Slags
• Fly ashes
• Sludges
• Contaminated soils
Our offer
• Toxicity reduction/removal by thermal desorption,
stabilization, low temperature destruction, etc.
• Characterization of waste: Chemical analysis
(leaching tests, toxicological properties).
• Environmental risk analysis for the use of secondary
raw materials
Use of obtained secondary raw materials
• Construction and civil works (roads, harbours, etc)
• Cement production
• Steel making,…
Energy from waste
Applications
• Energy recovery from the organic
fraction of waste (plastic, organic
sludge,…)
• Fuels from waste: syngas, liquid fuel,
solid recovered fuel,…
Our offer
Processes development /
improvement concerning
• Combustion
• Gasification
• Pyrolysis
Treatment of waste for safe disposal
Applications
• Removal of organic compounds from waste
and contaminated soils
• Vitrification of waste: fly ashes, asbestos, low
level radioactive waste
Our offer
• Improved processes based on plasma
technology for thermal treatment of waste
• Waste stabilization processes
• Verification of the environmental impact of the
treated waste.
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2. Infrastructures & Equipment: From Laboratory to Pilot Scale
Design, synthesis & physic-chemical characterization of DES
and ILs for industrial applications
▪ Schlenk line, Rotavapor, TGA, NMR, IR, Mass spectroscopy, DSC,
Karl Fisher, Viscosity, UV-Vis, AAS, TXRF, ICP-OES, SEM/EDS,
optical microscopy, RAMAN, etc.
Pyrometallurgy and high temperature processes
▪ Plasma pilot plant consisting of plasma reactor, post combustion
chamber, quenching, bag filter,…
▪ Waste treatment furnaces with controlled atmosphere and
temperature.
▪ Electric furnaces: chamber or rotary furnaces.
▪ Gasification pilot plant.
▪ Plasma reactor for tar removal from syngas.
▪ Induction furnace.
Hydrometallurgy and electrowinning processes
▪ Leaching reactors (up to 100L) , centrifuge, filter press, current
rectifiers, anodes, cubets, etc (lab and semi-technical scale).
▪ Automatic pilot-plant for surface treatments [(15 tanks of 20L)
for electrowinning of metals ]
▪ Glove box with dry and inert atmosphere
▪ Potentiostats, rotating disk electrode
Other equipment for the treatment and valorisation of wastes
▪ Waste pre-treatment systems: Drying oven, mills, sieve shaker,
briquetting press, pelletizer.
▪ Pilot plant for CO2 capture by absorption/adsorption

3. Ionic liquid
➢ Tunable chemical structures  their
properties can be adjusted
➢ Non volatile No VOC’s emission & safer
handling
➢ High chemical and thermal stability
➢ Low eco- and human toxicity
➢ High selectivity
➢ Good solvents
➢ Broad liquid range
➢ Broad electrochemical potential
window Allow the electrowinning of
metals impossible to reduce in traditional
(aqueous )electrolytes
Definition: ILs are new class of fluid salts consisting entirely of ions
which are liquid at low temperatures (˂100ºC or even room T)
WHAT ARE IONIC LIQUIDS (ILs)?
Advantages
➢ Leaching media
➢ Liquid-Liquid extraction media
➢ Gas-Liquid extraction media
➢ Electrodeposition media
➢ Electrolyte in advanced batteries and supercapacitors
➢ Lubricants
➢ Corrosion inhibitors
➢ Desulphurization systems
IONIC LIQUIDS USES?
Several Private, Regional, National & European founded projects.
Example of last European founded projects:
➢ COLABATS: Cobalt and lanthanide recovery from batteries, FP7. TRL 5
➢ REE4EU: Recovery of rare earths metals from permanent magnets and
NiMH batteries. H2020. TRL 6-7.
➢ PLATIRUS: Recovery of platinum group metals from catalysts.H2020.
TRL 2-4
➢ CROCODILE: First of a kind commercial compact system for recovering
of Co and Mo recovery from spent catalyst used in oil
hydrodesulphurization processes. H2020. TRL 8- 9
Our experience with ILs: