The Sustainable Inorganic Materials Management (SIM2) Consortium at KU Leuven

Jones, P. T.; Van Gerven, T.; Van Acker, K.; Pontikes, Y.; Cizer, Ö.; Binnemans, K.; Blanpain, B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48763-2_34

P. T. Jones¹⁸,
T. Van Gerven¹⁹,
K. Van Acker¹⁸,
Y. Pontikes¹⁸,
Ö. Cizer²⁰,
K. Binnemans²¹ &
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B. Blanpain¹⁸

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The transition towards resource efficient, closed-loop economies is an urgent necessity as our world is facing resource shortages and unprecedented environmental challenges. Research groups in Metallurgy, Geology, Chemical Engineering, Building Materials, Chemistry, Economics, Process Psychology and Law at KU Leuven (Belgium) have recently connected their expertise in the area of recovery and recycling of inorganic materials into a structural collaboration, the ‘Sustainable Inorganic Materials Management’ (SIM²) program. This has led to a growth and an intensification of research projects as well as local and international research cooperation, propelling SIM² to a flagship topic for the involved research groups and for the KU Leuven as a whole.

In our presentation we will highlight the vision, the organization in collaborative programs as well as the research topics of the program at KU Leuven. In addition we will elucidate the role of SIM² in co-organizing a potential urban mining node for an EIT-KIC on critical raw materials.

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Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44 box 2450, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium
P. T. Jones, K. Van Acker, Y. Pontikes & B. Blanpain
Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven, Willem de Croylaan 46 - box 2423, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium
T. Van Gerven
Department of Civil Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 40 - box 2448, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium
Ö. Cizer
Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F - box 2404, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium
K. Binnemans

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SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
Anne Kvithyld (a senior research scientist) (a senior research scientist)
Umicore Precious Metals Refining, Hoboken, Belgium
Christina Meskers (leads the business development and marketing team) (leads the business development and marketing team)
Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Gregory Krumdick (principal systems engineer) (principal systems engineer)
Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Brajendra Mishra (professor and the Assoc. Director) (professor and the Assoc. Director)
Outotec Finland, Finland
Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)
Aalto University, Finland
Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)
University of Melbourne, Australia
Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)
Central South University Changsha, China
Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)
TU Delft, Netherlands
Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)
Saint-Gobain Innovative Materials R&D, Belgium
Cong Wang (Senior Research Engineer) (Senior Research Engineer)
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Mark Schlesinger (Professor of Metallurgical Engineering) (Professor of Metallurgical Engineering)
Golisano Institute for Sustainability, USA
Gabrielle Gaustad Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Gabrielle Gaustad Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA
Diana Lados (Associate Professor, Founding Director) (Associate Professor, Founding Director)
Integrative Materials Design Center (iMdc), USA
Diana Lados (Associate Professor, Founding Director) (Associate Professor, Founding Director)
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Jeffrey Spangenberger (Engineering Specialist, Senior) (Engineering Specialist, Senior)

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Jones, P.T. et al. (2013). The Sustainable Inorganic Materials Management (SIM²) Consortium at KU Leuven. In: Kvithyld, A., et al. REWAS 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48763-2_34

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