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The 22nd of February 21 Chiara Gardenia, Efthymios Balomenos, Pritii Wai Yin Tam, Dimitrios Panias published the paper “Combined Soda Sintering and Microwave Reductive Roasting Process of Bauxite Residue for Iron Recovery” that shows an integrated process as a suitable method to transform Fe3+ oxides present in bauxite residue into magnetic oxides and metallic iron through a microwave roasting reduction, avoiding the formation of hercynite (FeAl2O4). https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/2/222

The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has launched the Bauxite Residue Roadmap to maximise the use of bauxite residue in cement and concrete products. The roadmap provides information that addresses concerns, prejudices, technical and legislative barriers to bauxite residue use.

On  the 28th of September, 2020,  the Fifth Progress meeting of the removal project was held once again online, due to the COVID 19 travel restrictions. The consortium has agreed to request for a six month extension to the project timeline to cope with the delays caused by the global pandemic.

First tapping of pig iron and slag from Bauxite Residue (BR) smelting at Elkem Pilot. Trials will continue with different mixes of BR, Si sources and carbon, including SPL. The slag produced will be evaluated and tested for use in cement and mineral wool production as well as for alumina and REE extraction.

The 4th RemovAL progress meeting was held on 11-12 May  2020, online due to the COVID19 outbreak.In total 40 participants joined the online teleconference sessions to review and discuss the progress of the project.  Hopefully the next REMOVAL meeting will be once again physical.

As part of the EU Removal research project, European Aluminium organised on 6 November a workshop in Brussels focusing on the EU regulatory framework addressing residues and slags from the metal industry. This workshop gathered more than 50 experts from the European commission, metal industry such as aluminium, steel, copper, ferro-alloy and from the RemovAL consortium. Experts discussed the opportunities and challenges encountered by the various metal sectors in order to identify more promising regulatory options for the future, especially for bauxite residues which are the heart of the Removal project. See the full programme of the workshop

The first project review for RemovAL took place in KU Leuven on 7-8 November 2019. During the meeting the consortium visited the KULeuven’s mobile inorganic polymer (IP) pilot plant. The latter will be transported to alumina refineries for in-situ demonstration of innovative IP binder production from BR.

On the 18, 19 and 20 September 2019, RemovAl, together with the SCALE and ENSUREAL projects, was presented at the Partnership Instrument EU-REI event “Indo-European Meet on Resource Efficiency in the Aluminium Industry with a Focus on Effective Utilization of Red Mud (Bauxite Residue)”. After a first round of meetings with the highest levels of the Indian Government and industry on the 19, a one day workshop followed where the state of play, opportunities and challenges related to the issue of Bauxite Residue management and valorisation were presented and discussed. On the 20, a visit by the EU Experts to the […]