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Construyen en España una planta para reciclar tierras raras con las que producir paneles solares o coches eléctricos
The CSIC (Spain’s Superior Council for Scientific Research) is leading a project called RC-Metals that aims to recover rare earth elements from electronic waste. These elements, including dysprosium, neodymium, and praseodimium, are critical for manufacturing electric cars, wind turbines, and solar panels, but are currently very scarce and concentrated in few countries.
A unique pilot plant (ISASMELTMF600) that will use molten metal baths to give these metals a second life. Glencore Technology’s ISASMELT™ provides an innovative, high intensity, yet low cost submerged lance smelting process that is simple to operate which can be used for a range of non-ferrous applications, such as copper, lead and tin, as well as recycling.