Services

The Department of Raw Material Processing and Recycling has very well equipped workshops and laboratories as well as halls for pilot-scale test plants. A list of the equipment can be viewed here. With competent staff the chair offers services in the following areas:

Market and feasibility studies

• Market analyses on waste streams and recycling processes
• Feasibility studies for the feasibility of waste treatment processes
• Feasibility studies for raw material processing

Process developments

• Process for processing primary raw materials, especially complex ores
• Treatment process for metal-containing and mineral waste streams
• Treatment of industrial waste water from metal producing and processing companies
• Processing of mining tailings, slag heaps and landfills
• Mechanical activation in production processes

Analyses

• Inorganic-chemical analyses
• X-ray structure investigations (diffractometry)
• Particle size analysis (sieve analysis, laser diffraction)