The Platirus project is pleased to announce the organization of an Exploitation Workshop which will bring important stakeholders from all over Europe and other countries who are interested in the topic of the recovery of valuable metals from secondary resources, and in particular Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) from a wide variety of waste resources such as spent autocatalysts, slags, tailings, and WEEE.

During 4.5 years, the Platirus project’s partners have been investigating and developing 11 novel different technologies along the leaching, separation and recovery processes of PGMs from different waste streams. The considered technologies are characterized by their efficiency, high selectivity, environmentally friendly concept, flexibility to recover other valuable metals and last but not least their low CAPEX and OPEX.

Objectives of the workshop:

The objectives of the Platirus exploitation workshop is to provide stakeholders essential information about the developed technologies and results achieved in order to elaborate potential exploitation routes for the recovery of PGMs and potentially other valuable metals from waste. The workshop will addresse:

1- the main concept/benefits and results achieved by the Platirus technologies,

2- the final Platirus recycling flowsheet based on 3 selected technologies as most promising ones for industrial validation at TRL5

3- Present the results of the recovered PGMs when used in new autocatalysts

4- Present the main LCA and LCC results related to the 3 selected most promising technologies

Additionally the workshop will feature presentations from the automotive sector as well as the refining sector who are interested in the PGMs recovery topic. Moreover a representative from the EC will provide an overview about the EC vision on supporting critical raw materials related activities in Horizon Europe.

Contact: For more information about this exploitation workshop, please contact the organisers: (Nader Akil, PNO, exploitation WP leader) Nader.akil@pnoconsultants.com and Amal Siriwardana (Tecnalia) Amal.Siriwardana@tecnalia.com (coordinator of Platirus).