Following a 25-year, Vice-President level career at Umicore mainly focusing on operations, process technology, engineering and business development, Dr. Ben Gilliams decided to make a major career switch and return to his alma mater, KU Leuven. Exactly 25 years after...
The SOLVOMET Group is delighted to announce the publication of its position paper “The Twelve Principles of Circular Hydrometalllurgy” in the Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy. In order to make this paper as relevant as possible for the global hydrometallurgical...
In a fruitful collaboration of SOLVOMET/SIM2 with the group of Prof. Tom Van Gerven (KU Leuven), researchers have demonstrated that the dilution of the ionic liquid [A336][HSO4] improves the hydrodynamics and the mass-transfer performance of the purification of Ge(IV)...
In May 2020, SOLVOMET filed the patent application “Method for producing battery grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate” (priority date: 2020-05-13). The patent application (WO2021228936A1, Prof. Koen Binnemans) became public in November 2021. The first part of the...
On November 15, the key outcomes of the EU NEMO project were presented at the NEMO Satellite Event in the framework of the 7th EU Raw Materials week in Brussels. All presentations are now available. NEMO (“Near-zero-waste recycling of low-grade sulphidic mining waste...
The SIM² KU Leuven / CROCODILE teams are delighted to share the new CROCODILE video on cobalt recovery through the recycling of spent Li-ion batteries. The topic of the new video is 100% in line with the official EC position as regards Europe’s three-pronged critical...
SOLVOMET ISC is KU Leuven’s Industrial Service Centre for Circular Hydrometallurgy. We support mining, metallurgical & recycling companies in the development of more sustainable (circular, low-energy input) hydrometallurgical processes, using state-of-the-art lab & mini-pilot scale experimental facilities.
Ben Gilliams: “Pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy are like yin and yang”January 13, 2023
The Twelve Principles of Circular HydrometalllurgyDecember 16, 2022
Purification of Ge(IV) in milliflow reactorsDecember 12, 2022