PEACOC-Pre-commercial pilot for the efficient recovery of Precious Metals from European end of life resources with novel low cost techs

From platinum-group metals to gold and silver, precious metals are irreplaceable industrial assets. Used in a wide range of sectors, they are essential to the EU economy. Recycling precious metals is therefore important. In the PEACOC project, a consortium of 19 partners from 8 European countries and Turkey is working together to develop an economically and environmentally viable pre-commercial metallurgical system for the recovery of precious metals.
The project will reduce the supply risk of precious metals in the EU and offer new business opportunities to SMEs that recycle end-of-life products. Its concept is based on recovery and refining technologies previously developed as part of the H2020-funded PLATIRUS project (i.e. microwave-assisted leaching, gas diffusion electrocrystallization and deep eutectic solvents).
The project is coordinated by TECNALIA (Spain).