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Critical resources for energy and recyclability

Teaching Unit (for year 1): Elective #1

Face-to-face time

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`24`
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hours

Student workload

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`60`
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hours

ECTS

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`3`
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Responsible Teacher

Alexandre CHAGNES

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Aims of the teaching

The teaching intends to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge on the sustainable management of mineral resources to ensure an optimal supply of raw materials for the development of energy transition technologies. After briefly describing technologies and their composition, a discussion about the need of strategic and critical metals will be engaged with the students. It will pave the way to address the challenges in the development of processes for the extraction and valorisation of metals contained in primary (mining) and secondary resources (electronic waste, tailings, etc.). The physicochemistry and the unit operations and technologies involved in these processes will be introduced. A special attention will be paid on raw material production and recycling process for the sustainable production of electric energy storage such as lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells, solar panels.

Intended Learning outcomes (measured by the assessment)

At the end of the teaching module, the student should:

Have acquired knowledge and understanding on the treated topics

Be able to understand the operations involved in flowsheets for recycling processes

Be able to utilize a proper scientific language

Be able to engage dialog with specialists

Be able to identify and formulate R&D questions

Learning activities and approach

E-learning (online)

Lectures (onsite)

24h

Tutorials (onsite)

Exercises

Conference/debates in the presence of industrial(s)

Useful information

Location

Practical work equipment

Other information

Assessment method

Written report and oral exam about analysis of an academic research paper.

Prerequisites

None

Related literature

Apostol D., Palmer J., Pasqualetti M., Smardon R., Sullivan R., (2017). The Renewable Energy Landscape: Preserving Scenic Values in our Sustainable Future, Routledge.

Brücher, W. (2009). Energiegeographie: Wechselwirkung zwischen Ressourcen, Raum und Politik. Berlin: Borntraeger.

Frolova M., Prados M.-J., Nadaï A., (2015). Renewable Energies and European Landscapes, Springer.

Smil V. (2017). Energy Transitions, 2nd edition, Praeger.

Smil V. (2015). Power Density, The MIT Press

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