Innovation and Industry
Events
10 - 13 October 2023
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Issues and Foresight
News
26 May 2021
Aluminium in the energy transition: what lies ahead for this indispensable metal of the modern world?
Over the last twenty years, the production of aluminium has tripled and the ecological transition looks set to make ever greater use of this metal in low-carbon technologies.
Issues and Foresight
News
29 March 2021
Nickel in the energy transition: why is it called the devil’s metal?
Omnipresent in our modern societies, nickel is essential to numerous industrial sectors and widely used in construction. This metal is not currently considered to be a critical metal. However, the rapid development of batteries for electric vehicles has accelerated demand in recent years, forcing the nickel industry to adapt accordingly.
Issues and Foresight
News
10 February 2021
Lithium in the energy transition: more than a resource issue?
Issues and Foresight
News
07 January 2021
Rare earths in the energy transition: what threats are there for the “vitamins of modern society”?
Issues and Foresight
News
04 December 2020
Copper in the energy transition: an essential, structural and geopolitical metal!
Issues and Foresight
News
12 November 2020
Cobalt in the energy transition: a closer look at supply risks
Innovation and Industry
Our networks
metal recycling our networks ANR GENERATE project with IRIS In 2020, IFPEN and the French Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) published their report on the research carried out as part of the GENERATE (Geopolitics of renewable energies and prospective analysis of the energy transition) project, financed by the
Innovation and Industry
Our solutions
METAL RECYCLING OUR solutIONS In the context of supply pressures and regulatory changes, developing metal recycling solutions becomes all the more relevant. Building on its R&D, IFPEN, in partnership with Axens and Eurecat, is able to provide a closed-loop solution to two application areas: catalysts and batteries. Metal catalyst recycling
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Metal Recycling
METAL RECYCLING Overview and challenges Technological innovations developed to support the energy transition make use of critical or strategic metals: These refined minerals and metals are used for: electric vehicles: cobalt, lanthanum, lithium; fuel cells: platinum, palladium, rhodium; wind energy technologies: neodymium, dysprosium, terbium; aviation: titanium; photovoltaic solar technologies: cadmium
Issues and Foresight
Metals in the energy transition
Copper, cobalt, lithium... we are set to be increasingly reliant on metals due to the large-scale roll-out of renewable energies and new forms of mobility. According to economist Emmanuel Hache, who heads the ANR GENERATE project, this reliance could lead to shifts in the balances of power and even growing
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Climate, environment and circular economy
New R&I themes, stimulated by the energy transition and circular economy markets, are beginning to emerge. The multidisciplinarity of IFPEN’s researchers is used in projects covering fields as diverse as CO 2 capture/storage and plastics recycling, addressing the problems of industry. CO 2 capture, utilization and storage Plastics recycling Environmental
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Our strengths
metal recycling Our strengths More than 15 years’ experience in R&I on batteries (simulation/dimensioning), and laboratory-based development of next-generation batteries (Li-S, SSB) Utilization of our expertise, acquired at industrial level over more than 40 years on processes similar to CAM production. The development of R&D skills on closed-loop recycling solutions