Sustainability Research at the Center for Resource Recovery & Recycling
By MPI September 19, 2012
CR3 faculty and students from WPI, CSM, and K.U. Leuven are researching and working on a variety of interesting projects (precompetitive and fundamental) funded by industry members and NSF. The Center performs basic and developmental research relevant to the industry. This academic year, research will be conducted on the following CR3 projects:
- Accurate and Precise Optoelectronic Measurements of Molten Metal Chemistry
- Beneficiation of Flat Panel Functional Coatings
- Conditioning of Machined Chips
- Development of a Novel Recycling Process for Li-Ion Batteries
- Dezincing of Galvanized Steel
- Opportunities and Barriers to Resource Recovery and Recycling from Shredder Residue in North America
- Metal Recovery via Automated Sortation
- Molten Metal Compositional Sensing to Enhance Scrap Recycling
- Rare-Earth Recovery from Magnets, catalysts, and other Secondary Resources
- Recovery of Rare Earth Metals from Phosphor Dust of Waste Fluorescent Light Fixtures
- Recovery of Value-Added Products from Red Mud and Foundry Bag House Dust
- Recovery of Zinc and Iron from EAF Dusts Including Hot Stage Slag Engineering and Energy Recovery
- Synthesis of Inorganic Polymers from Metallurgical Residues
- For more information on all on-going and completed CR3 research projects, please visit our website.
CR3 graduate students studying and researching at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) are Joseph Grogan, Patrick Eduafo, Matthew Esquibel, Keegan Hammond, and James Wright. K.U. Leuven (Belgium) students include Silviana Onisei, Yiannis Pontikes, and Thomas Suetens. WPI graduate students working on CR3 research projects are Eric Gratz, Naren Nayak, Qina Sa, and Hao Yu.
Advising our students at WPI are Profs. Diran Apelian (Director of CR3), Yan Wang, Marion Emmert, and Ning Sun (Post-Doctoral Fellow). CSM faculty includes Profs. Brajendra Mishra (CR3 Site Director), Corby Anderson, Patrick Taylor. CR3 Site Director and Professor at K.U. Leuven is Bart Blanpain.
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