ITU – SME – RWTH Aachen Cooperation

Project support was given to the ITU Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering by TÜBİTAK, within the Support Program for Increasing the Capacity to Benefit from International Research Funds and Participation in International R&D Collaborations (CORNET / 29th Call, www.cornet.online)

Project support was given to the ITU Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering by TÜBİTAK, within the Support Program for Increasing the Capacity to Benefit from International Research Funds and Participation in International R&D Collaborations (CORNET / 29^th Call, www.cornet.online)

 

Project Title:

Sustainable Recovery of Rare Earth Elements (Nd, Dy,Pr) from spent NdFeB magnets (REC-MAG).

 

Project Consortium:

Academic Partners:

IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling (www.ime-aachen.de), RWTH Aachen University.

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Eng. (www.mme.itu.edu.tr), Istanbul Technical University.

 

Coordinating Associations:

Istanbul Minerals and Metals Exporters Association (IMMIB) / Turkey and

Stifterverband Metalle e.V. Berlin (WV Metalle) / Germany. 

 

SME Project Partners:

Turkey:

Arçelik, WAT Motor, Exitcom, GG Malzeme Teknolojileri Ltd. Şti., Magiçe Magnetik Teknolojiler, EAG, Mıknatıs Ar-Ge.

Germany:

Aurubis, EMH Technik GmbH, Magnequench GmbH, Meab Chemie Technik, GMB Deutsche Magnetwerke GmbH, Konzept GmbH.

 

Project Duration: 24 Months (01.01.2021-31.12.2022)

 

Project Investigator:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Friedrich, RWTH, IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling.

Prof. Dr. Sebahattin GÜRMEN, ITU, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Eng.

 

Project Scope:

CORNET Program is aimed to support projects that will strengthen the pre-competition capabilities of SMEs. It is expected that the outputs of project are utilized by a SME user group and by this way the outputs will be benefited and disseminated.

 

This project is in the field of critical and key Technologies and supported by an international academy, an umbrella organization and a SME. It is planned to recover critical rare earth metals (Nd, Dy, Pr with high commercial value and supply difficulties) from NdFeB waste magnets to ensure sustainability within “Waste-Raw Material Conversion”.

 

The workpakages will be carried out by the ITU Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Department and RWTH / IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling to develop a recycling and usage process that is both sustainable and economically feasible for reducing environmental risks and bringing the results to the SME user group.