Job: Investigador/a en Formación
Department: WEEI
Location: Manresa (Spain)
Contract: Temporary
Working day: Full time
Sector: Energy
Vacancies: 1
Discipline: R&DEurecatis the main Research & Technology Organisation in Catalonia and the second largest private research organization in southern Europe. It brings together the experience of more than 700 professionals and provides services to more than 2,000 companies. Applied R&D, technological services, highly specialized training, technological consultancy or valorisation and exploitation of industrial property are some of the services that Eurecat offers for both large and small and medium-sized enterprises in all sectors. The technology centre participates in more than 200 large national and international consortium projects of high strategic R&I and has 181 patents and 10 spin-offs. The added value provided by Eurecat accelerates innovation, reduces spending on scientific and technological infrastructures, reduces risks and provides specialized knowledge tailored to each company.
Eurecat’s Waste, Energy and Environmental Impact Unit (WEEI) in partnership with UPC - Barcelona Tech offers a PhD Fellowship to develop the following thesis:
"New processes for the recovery of CRM from batteries"
Eurecat's Waste, Energy and Envionmental Impact Unit (WEEI) provides expertise and experience in developing and improving processes for (1) managing, reusing, and minimising waste, (2) assessing and choosing more efficient electrical and thermal systems and (3) designing and validating cells and batteries for electric vehicles. We deliver characterisation, simulation and modelling services in waste, energy and batteries for assessment and optimisation and we conduct studies for experimental validation and scaling-up of chemical, physical and biological processes, testing equipment and technologies and assessing the environmental and socioeconomic impact of processes and products.
R2EM group of UPC-Barcelona Tech is developing research activity on development of sustainable urban and industrial waste management cycles based on resource recovery approaches promoting circular solutions of waste to product and waste to energy. Research also involves efforts on developing environmental remediation solutions for soils and ground water remediation, process and environmental monitoring and environmental risk.
The thesis will be framed in several projects: INNOCRM (internal project), HE Free4Lib and HE Intelligent.
Functions and Responsibilities
The research will deal with the development of hydrometallurgical processes for the recovery of Li, Co, Ni and Mn from spent batteries.
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