- ENSUREAL: Ensuring zero waste production of Alumina in Europe
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06/03/2021
ENSUREAL partners presented some of the results from ENSUREAL project in the 3rd International Bauxite Residue Valorization and Best Practices Conference in September 2020. The goal of this conference is to search realistic and scientific solutions for Bauxite Residue. Three were the sessions dedicated to ENSUREAL:
15/12/2020
The ENSUREAL process has a by-product called grey mud. It is mostly limestone which can be used as a building material. In the project the grey mud is tested as building material in the SINTEF Laboratorium.
15/09/2020
After months of delay due to COVID-19, finally the first pilot scale test at the industrial complex of Aluminium of Greece at Agios Nikolaos, Viotia was done. Bauxite residue was mixed with lime to produce iron and slag. The iron can be used as cast-iron and […]
29/05/2020
Within the ENSUREAL project, several locations for a full-size alumina plant are being considered. One of these is Mo Industrial Park, one of Norway’s largest industrial parks, situated in the town of Mo i Rana. The site is attractive because of: The nearby presence of an […]
09/03/2020
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After leaching of the slag in the ENSUREAL process, aluminium hydroxide is precipitated through bubbling of CO2 through the solution. At NTUA in Athens and NTNU in Trondheim, the groups are working on the precipitation stage of the process. The efficiency of the precipitation is tested as […]
21/11/2019
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Jafar Safarian, James Mwase and Adamantia Lazou working in the lab. First picture of them weighing the raw materials. They are mixing bauxite residue and quick lime. The goal is to produce slag that can be leached at NTUA. The second picture is Jafar checking the […]
25/10/2019
ENSUREAL‘s 4th project meeting was held at the Norway House in Brussels, on the 1st and 2nd of October, 2019.
01/10/2019
On the 18, 19 and 20 September 2019, ENSUREAL, together with the SCALE and RemovAl 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 […]
25/09/2019
James Mwase, PhD in chemical engineering, joined the NTNU team of ENSUREAL. As a postdoctoral fellow on the project he will primarily investigate the precipitation of alumina from alkaline leach solutions as part of the Pedersen process, trying to identify the optimal process conditions to produce […]