SCALE-Up:
Scaling up Scandium production from European Bauxite Residue

SCALE-Up:
Scaling up Scandium production from European Bauxite Residue

SCALEUP: An EIT Raw Material Upscaling project

EIT RAW MATERIALS

3 year project

3,701,711.00

MYTILINEOS  & MEAB demo plants

Scandium is an enabler in vital sectors like clean energy, transport, optics and advanced materials. Despite having a proven set of impressive applications, its volatile price and unreliable supply chain limit their deployment.

SCALE-Up demonstrates a commercialization-ready flowsheet for producing Sc-products from Bauxite Residue.  Leaching and separation takes place as integrated process within the MYTILINEOS’s alumina plant, extracting from 850,000t/a of Bauxite Residue, 67t/y of  crude Sc concentrate. The concetrate is refined at SCAVANGER into 22t/y of pure Sc2O3, which is then returned to MYTILINEOS’ Al smelter for production of 733t/y of Al-Sc2% master alloy.

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