PRICE—PRocess Industries in the Circular Economy

PRICE is an acronym for PRocess Industries in the Circular Economy. The main objective of the project is to prepare the collaborating industrial partners to the circular economy. This competence building project gathers industrial partners, research institutes, and the two largest universities in Norway. The participants are: Boliden Odda, Glencore Nikkelverk, KA Rasmussen, NOAH, Solberg Industri, Yara International, SINTEF industry, University of Oslo, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). To reach this ambitious goal, there are sub-objectives: increased recirculation and recovery of metals and minerals—in general and between the participants in PRICE; understanding the behaviour (speciation) of and recovery or removal of valuable elements and toxic components present at low concentrations in process solutions; use of electrochemical means to enhance separation of elements present in trace concentrations; and assessment to evaluate the impacts of circular economy value-chains through environmental modelling (LCA) and techno/economic optimization.