Horizon MEDALS project kicking off
In July 2024 the MEDALS project, within the Clean Steel Partnership program, kicked off. On top of a project meeting with all eight partners, the group had a viking dinner in Stockholm.
The MEDALS project, within the Clean Steel Partnership program, aims to increase the recycling ratio of steel and metals through improved scrap sorting and better separation of non-wanted tramp elements – as well as valuable alloying elements.
For example, the project will develop specific methods to remove copper and tin in the liquid phase and to recover copper form steel-making residues through pyrometallurgical processes. This can create new steel products that can handle a higher copper content while maintaining required application properties. The project's lab-scale experiments will develop thermodynamic and kinetic modelling focusing on tramp elements.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, through Björn Glaser , acts as the main coordinator for the project, which kicked off with a meeting in Stockholm in July. The MEDALS consortium includes eight partners from five EU countries.