PROCSIMO

Many high-temperature metal production processes produce a rock-like byproduct known as slag. 

This slag may contain residual metals that can cause economic and environmental problems.

To recover these metal losses and valorize the remaining slag, the slag can be treated in an electric slag cleaning furnace.

The slag cleaning process is based on the reduction of dissolved metal and the precipitation of metal particles present in the slag.

Furthermore, any remaining metals must be immobilized in a specific mineral to enable their use in construction applications.

The PROCSIMO project aims to measure the crucial slag properties necessary to recover critical and strategic metals, such as copper, lead, antimony, and tin, during the slag cleaning process and to further optimize the slags for valorization in construction applications.