IVL

Description

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is an independent, non-profit organisation, owned by a foundation jointly established by the Swedish Government and Swedish industry. IVL was established in 1966 and has since then been involved in the development of solutions to environmental problems, both at national and international level. The institute comprises Sweden's largest groups of environmental experts and employs around 200 people, which makes IVL a leading institute for applied environmental research and consultancy services. Much of our work is aimed at creating a more efficient use of resources. The services we offer in this field cover a broad area from production to waste and back again, closing loops and adding insights to creating more circular economy. In addition to optimizing individual sub-processes and equipment we are also involving whole process lines, process intensification and interactions between different industries, such as industrial symbiosis. The approach is holistic and includes the development of new chemical technologies and purification plants, better control of processes as well as the evaluation of processes from a life cycle perspective. The waste group as such has a broad competence working with definitions, waste flows and matters related to waste management. IVL furthermore assesses policy instruments for waste management as well as provide national government with basis for decision-making. IVL is involved in the work with collecting waste statistics on a national level (via the consortium SMED) and has a deep experience of waste data and waste flows including content of CRM.

IVL and Raw Materials

IVL is involved in the following related projects:

• Battery recycling: Systemanalysis and hydrometallurgical technology development for the recycling of used NiMH battery systems in the automotive industry. The project is conducted thus to examine the possibility of developing a hydrometallurgical process for the primary recovery of rare earth metals from batteries, but also the recovery of Ni and Co and then make environmental analysis of the results.

• New_innonet – NEW_InnoNet’s main goal is to mobilise stakeholders towards building a circular economy by developing and reinforcing solid foundations for building the European Near-Zero Waste Platform. (H2020 project)
• Explore – Aims at finding more efficient ways of recycling of end-of-life-vehicles.

CONTACT : Åsa Stenmarck
EMAIL: asa.stenmarck@ivl.se
PHONE: +46 10 788 65 66
WEBSITE: www.ivl.se