The department has excellent facilities for metallurgical R&D on a large scale. The staff includes some 10 experienced researchers and 20 technicians/engineers. The department is responsible for the pyro-metallurgical pilot plant.

Confidential contract research for individual clients and pilot/demonstration testing dominates the department’s projects.

Research groups

• Operating and maintenance of pilot equipment
• Research and project coordination

Typical research subjects are

• Pyro-treatment of metal-containing or hazardous wastes
• Upgrading/refining of steel, ferro-alloys and nonferrous metal scrap
• Large-scale pilot testing of new metal-producing concepts

R&D areas

• New processes/new process technology
• Environmental engineering
• Energy efficiency
• Ferro-alloys
• Nonferrous metallurgy
• Consulting services

Competence/Research activities

• Management of R&D demo projects
• Operation of large-scale pilot equipment
• Environmental technology
  • Waste-product treatment
  • Incineration, energy recovery
• Nonferrous metallurgy
• Measurement and control solutions
• Ferro alloys
• Energy production in metallurgy
• Reduction
• Melting
• Refining
• Casting

Cutting-edge competence

• Running and managing large pilot and EU projects in MEFOS’s pilot equipment.
• Dimensioning and design of metallurgical test equipment.
• Metallurgical process technology, especially reduction metallurgy, ferro-alloys, energy and gasification technology.
• Environmental and waste-product technology.
• Measuring technology and process analysis.

Tools

• Large-scale pilot equipment in metallurgy
• Large-scale pilot waste-gas-treatment equipment
• Movable equipment and industrial production equipment