SEArcularMINE partners gathered in Palermo for their 4th General Assembly and the first in-person meeting since the start of the project in June 2020. With COVID restrictions in place on the Università degli studi di Palermo (UNIPA) campus, fruitful presentations and discussions were hosted over 2 days in the beautiful Botanic Gardens of Palermo...
Serena Randazzo, from project partner UNIPA, presented an introduction to SEArcularMINE at the Critical Raw Materials event at Raw Materials Week in Brussels this week. Explaining the work of the project to innovate a sustainable circular process to recover magnesium, lithium, cobalt, boron, strontium, gallium, germanium from seawater.
Raw Materials Week took place from 15 to 19 November 2021 as hybrid and online events, gathering a wide range of stakeholders discussing policies and initiatives in the field of raw materials. The 2021 Raw Materials Week centred around the eight annual High-level Conference of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on raw …
SEArcularMINE was delighted to participate in the first episode of the second series of LOOPs.
LOOPS is a live webinar series organised by Veltha, an International Research Association, committed to spotlighting innovation in the field of circular economy.
Loops was launched with the aim of showcasing the innovative projects that have grown from Horizon 2020. Many of these aim at tackling the current challenges hampering a more sustainable and circular use of resources, in order to accelerate Europe’s transition to a greener and better society.
For this episode of Loops we wanted to dive into the world of Critical Raw …
A Reverse Electrodialysis stack has been shipped by project partners SUEZ to Palermo and has been safely received by project partners ResourSEAs. The stack has already been assembled and some preliminary tests have been carried out to verify the hydraulic seal. The first phase of the laboratory experimental campaign has started and will continue over the next few months.
The SEArcularMINE sampling campaign continues this season across the Mediterranean Basin. Project Partners iBET, based in Lisbon, returned to the nearby Samouco Saltworks this week to collect samples for analysis.
In common with many ancient saltworks across Europe, Samouco is also a protected Natural Reserve. The salt harvesting had been completed the previous week leaving the 'bittern' – the pink residual waste liquid targeted by the SEArcularMINE project - clear to see.
These samples were collected send to partners UPC in Barcelona for analysis. SEArcularMINE in developing innovative processes to recover valuable minerals from these ‘waste’ products.
As part of Work Package 2, SEArcularMINE partners are looking for ways to improve the extraction of salt and other elements from bittern solutions.