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PARALLEL SESSIONS
On top of several high-quality keynote sessions, the Raw Materials Summit 2019 offers a number of technical Parallel Sessions, i.e., small technical workshops with strong focus on innovation. Five to six invited speakers will be presenting innovative technologies, trends and results, showcasing the latest achievements in Europe and beyond, as well as results of ongoing projects of the EIT RawMaterials. The topics of the sessions are chosen to cover the most pressing technological and industrial challenges facing the raw materials sector and having an impact on the entire value chain. The content of the session is designed to cover in a balanced fashion both the six thematic areas characterizing the KIC Raw Materials, as well as the strategic Lighthouse Programme launched by our Community.
PS1: Resources: Discovery and Beyond
Resources assessment and availability, innovative exploration technologies
Day 1 - 20.05.2019 - from 15:30 to 18:00 - Room Aquamarin
Europe utilizes more than 20% of the world’s primary production of metals and minerals, but it only produces 2–3% of this amount. The continent presents and holds potential for future exploitation of available mineral resources, with opportunities for renewed, modern and juvenile exploration. Still, only 1.4% of the global exploration budget is devoted to projects in Europe. More discoveries, acceptable in terms of environmental and social impact through e.g., better engagement of communities, are needed to establish a sustainable raw material supply in Europe.
New innovative and improved technologies are needed to achieve deeper penetration, improved resolution, comprehensive characterisation of new physical parameters, improved models, ease of acquisition at lowered costs and improved data analysis and visualisation to assist fast interpretation and decision-making.
The session will provide an overview of the latest developments in exploration and primary resources assessment. Technologies enabling simultaneous measurement while drilling, to characterize in real-time or near-real time rock composition and non-invasive deep exploration methodologies will be showcased. The utilization of big data and the latest development in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to help gain suitable information to increase the chance to find exploitable ore deposits will also be shown, with application to specific cases.
Murray Hitzman, CEO, Director, Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences
Minerals: Europe IS the Future (provisional)
Patrick Nadoll (provisional), Senior Advisor, EIT RawMaterials
Sustainable Discovery and Supply - a new Lighthouse Programme
Bo Stensgaard (Blue Jay Mining), Stefan Bernstein (GEUS)
Modern exploration technologies deployed in the harsh environment of Greenland
Richard Gloaguen, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
You can look but you can’t touch – non-invasive exploration in Europe (and beyond)
Anders R. Persson (tbc), EPIROC
The value of measuring while drilling in mineral exploration
Mark Fawcett, IBM
The Red Lake case – accelerated exploration targeting using modern data analytics
PS2: Deep, Intelligent Mining
New technologies for mining and mining under extreme conditions
Day 1 - 20.05.2019 - from 15:30 to 18:00 - Room Rubin
Despite high availability of minerals and metals in the earth’s crust, declining discovery rate and decreasing ore grade is an issue that the mining industry is facing in the recent decades. Mining often is carried out in harsh conditions, but a smart utilisation of new and innovative technologies can contribute mitigate matters related to workers safety and environmental impact of mining activities. A sustainable, intelligent mining is a vision that will contribute to increase efficiency in mining operation, lower production costs, minimize environmental impact and mining waste, ensuring at the same time safer and more attractive working conditions:
The session will cover different technological aspects, such as automation of mining equipment, innovative methodologies for noise control as well as new education platforms for the miners of the future. Also, the utilisation of platforms for earth observation to mining operation as a way to mine in a smarter fashion will be addressed. Case studies applied to real operations will be showcased.
Michael Ramström (to be confirmed), EPIROC
Automation of Mining Equipment
Marko Antila, VTT
Noise Control in Mining Operation
Irene Benito Rodriguez, EIT RawMaterials
RawMatCop: Investigating How Earth Observation Can Boost Mineral and Material Extraction and Environmental Impact Monitoring
Marc Borbas, Infomine
Edumine - A platform for Professional Development and Training for Mining
PS3: Minerals Processing and Materials Recycling
Increasing resource, energy and water efficiency during raw materials beneficiation
Day 1 - 20.05.2019 - from 15:30 to 18:00 - Room Turmalin
Mineral processing technologies during raw materials beneficiation need to be adapted to the challenge of increasingly complex primary and secondary input materials. For Secondary resources, there are numerous potential target metals to be recovered, but only few of them will lead to profitable returns. As products get more complex with lower concentrations of target metals, the need for more efficient recovery of these compounds increases. Higher recovery yield needs to be combined with water and energy efficiency in order to meet both competitive cost and a reduced environmental impact. At the same time, the valorisation of wastes downstream the processing plant is one of the viable route if we wish to realize the circular economy principles within the minerals processing industry. The session will provide an overview of developments in different areas, including waste-to-products transformations, innovative metallurgical processes, innovative water management methodologies, low impact processing of minerals as well as control and optimisation of algorithms to increase energy efficiency.
Jean-Michel Milazzo, ERAMET Research
Go40 project: From iron and manganese oxides waste to valuable metal alloys using novel carbon sources materials
Christian Binder, OUTOTEC
MONICALC (OUTOTEC): Control and Optimisation Algorithms/ Energy Saving
Paivi Kinnunen, VTT
METGROW+ Metal Recovery from Low Grade Ores and Wastes
Phil Newmann, Anglo American
ITERAMS project
Darina Styriaková, Ekolive
Ecological refining of mineral raw materials as an on-site service
PS4: Advanced Materials: enablers for disruptive innovation
Lightweight design, additive manufacturing, design of new alloys
Day 1 - 20.05.2019 - from 15:30 to 18:00 - Auditorium
Radical innovation in industries such as the automotive, and in other areas such as energy production and storage, are enabled by the introduction of new and innovative materials, allowing enhanced electronic, optical and mechanical properties, with improved performance and new functionalities. New materials development can also have an important impact in the substitution so-called critical raw materials (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/raw-materials/specific-interest/critical_en) or toxic substances utilised in the process industry or in consumer’s products.
The session will give some highlights on a number of promising materials technologies such as additive manufacturing, enabling complex materials shapes with improved mechanical properties, and allowing at the same time increased materials efficiency. Printed electronics will also be covered, with its potential to substitute many critical metals with low-costs, easily processable organic materials. Examples of how new magnetic materials are being developed for new application and how graphene holds promises for applications in energy storage will be illustrated.
Prof. Maurizio Vedani, Politecnico di Milano
Design of new alloys for metal additive manufacturing
Taavi Madiberk, Skeleton Technologies
From Sustainable Raw Materials to Solutions Fighting Climate Change
Fabrice Domingues Dos Santos, ARKEMA France
Supersmart : Scale-up of smart materials for printed & organic electronics
Prof. Olivier Gutfleish, TU Darmstadt
Magnetic refrigeration: from fundamentals to a practical cooling alternative
PS5: Materials for Future Mobility
Challenges and solutions for raw materials and advanced materials for future mobility
Additive manufacturing, printed electronics, energy materials
Day 2 - 21.05.2019 - from 14:30 to 17:00 - Auditorium
Radical innovation in industries such as the automotive, and in other areas such as energy production and storage, can be triggered by the introduction of new and innovative materials with improved performance, new functionalities or better cost benefits. New materials development can also have an important impact in the substitution of so-called critical raw materials (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/raw-materials/specific-interest/critical_en) or toxic substances utilised in the process industry or in consumer’s products.
The session will give some highlights on a number of promising materials technologies such as additive manufacturing, enabling complex materials shapes with improved mechanical properties, and allowing at the same time increased materials efficiency. Printed electronics will also be covered, with its potential to substitute many critical metals with low-costs, easily processable organic materials. Examples are given of how the development of new magnetic materials and graphene enable radical innovation in the cooling sector and in energy storage.
Daniele Pullini, FIAT Research Centre
Materials challeges for the automotive sector
Michel Glotin, Scientific Director, Arkema
Composite for Mobility Applications
Claudio Mus, R&D Director, Endurance Overseas
E-Mobility: threat or new opportunities for aluminium?
Maria Åstrand, Northvolt
A European Lithium refinery producing high grade Lithium for batteries – why, how and what)
Claude Guillame, CEA
ALIM project
PS6: Resource Efficiency in Cities
Urban and landfill mining, materials flow analysis, circular economy
Day 2 - 21.05.2019 - from 14:30 to 17:00 - Room Aquamarin
Forecast by the United Nations estimate that by 2030 about 5 billion people will live in cities, and by 2050 two thirds of the global population will live in urban areas. As the attractiveness of cities as places of opportunity for a higher quality of life increases, so does also the materials intensity connected to the population increase in urban areas. Materials flows optimisation in cities is crucial to aim for the shift from a linear to a circular economy model. A concerted use of policies, social innovation, new business models, education, new design approaches and technologies is the key to achieve resource efficiency in cities.
The session will provide an overview of challenges to be addressed to increase resource efficiency in cities. Moreover, it will be shown how policies, education, innovation and technologies can facilitate the efficient recovery of valuable materials, for example in consumers electronics products.
Nicolai Jacobi, ICLEI
From cascadic use to green infrastructure - An urban perspective to circular development
Prof. Markus Reuter, HZDR
Process metallurgy and systems in circular city design – the challenges
Yiannis Pontikes, KU Leuven
RECOVER: an example of KIC project that is proposing to use (industrial) waste (red muds) to make building materials
Martin Schlummer, Fraunhofer
Recycling of display appliances
Miha Zakotnik, Urban Mining Company
The Future of Waste NdFeB Rare Earth Permanent Magnets and their Role in a Circular Economy