The Department of Mineral and Waste Processing boasts very well equipped workshops and laboratories, as well as a pilot plant building. A list of the equipment is shown on this page.
The Institute and its expert staff provide the following services:
Market and feasibility studies
- Market analyses on waste streams and recycling processes
- Feasibility studies for waste recovery processes
- Feasibility studies for raw material processing methods
Process development
- Processing methods for primary resources, especially complex ores
- Processing methods for metal containing and mineral waste streams
- Processing methods for industrial wastewater from metal-producing and metal-processing operations
- Soil and tip remediation in the metals sector
- Mechanical activation in production processes
Analysis
- Inorganic chemical analysis
- X-ray structure analysis (diffractometry)
- Particle size analysis (sieve analysis, laser diffraction)