TECHNOLOGY

Audi drives research into 'membrane mining'

Audi Stiftung für Umwelt (Audi Environmental Foundation) is working with the TU Bergakademie Freiberg University of Resources, the world's oldest mining and metallurgy oriented university, on bioleaching methods that use bacteria and innovative membrane technology to mine for strategic elements.

Membrane sorting of ions hasn’t been tried in mining before

Membrane sorting of ions hasn’t been tried in mining before

The university's Institute of Thermal, Environmental and Resources' Process Engineering has developed a membrane downstream process for recovering strategic elements from in-situ obtained bioleaching solutions...

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