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Battery Recycling Conference & Expo 2023 will take place between 28 and 29 June 2023 in Frankfurt Messe.

Battery Recycling Conference & Expo 2023 is the must-attend event for battery producers, recycling companies, critical raw material suppliers, and the entire battery supply chain to come together to discover the latest innovations and solutions to create a circular economy for used batteries and help create sustainable supply chains for the future. This year’s cycle will showcase over 80 exhibitors in the free-to-attend exhibition, 100+ expert speakers at the conference and over 1,500 participants. 

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The annual Forum event, organised this year from 6 to 7 June in Madrid, brings together more than 100 key European battery industry stakeholders, including senior company executives, policy-makers, association and NGO representatives etc.

The speakers will include EU and Spanish policy-makers, and representatives from associations, academia, research organisations and private companies, covering topics from sustainability/raw materials to energy storage and mobility.

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EMSF 2023 is the 19th European meeting on Supercritical Fluids organized by the International Society for the Advancement of Supercritical Fluids. This edition is chaired by Prof. Edit Székely from Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

The theme of the conference is Supercritical fluids for the European Green Deal. EMSF2023 plans to bring together the members of the supercritical community for an in-person conference in scenic Budapest, between 21-24 May 2023.

The scientific program will include but is not limited to the following areas:

  • Fluid properties, phase equilibria, thermodynamics, heat transfer etc.
  • Energetic applications
  • Safe and sustainable by design (SSbD), reactions, green chemistry
  • Nature-based solutions (NBS), biomass utilization
  • Application-oriented (e.g. food, natural health, pharmaceutical, medical) research
  • Extra high pressure (over 50 MPa)
  • Novel materials, particle formation and nanotechnology
  • Waste valorization and recycling, including polymers
  • Membranes and analytical techniques
  • Technology, process intensification, scale up
  • Regulation, policy and funding

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The 17th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes – FEMS EUROMAT 2023, will be held in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 03 – 07 September 2023. The congress venue will be the Goethe-University’s new Westend Campus.

FEMS EUROMAT 2023 is the premier international congress for the latest advancements in materials science and technology. Join leading experts, researchers and innovators with academic and industrial backgrounds from around the globe to share cutting-edge research and network with industry leaders.

The congress’s ambition is to organise a memorable and successful event in the tradition of previous FEMS EUROMAT editions and to offer delegates many opportunities to engage in discussions, build new and strengthen existing partnerships and collaborations within and outside Europe.

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Conference Theme: Driving towards sustainable electrification of the UK

Co-organised together with University of Birmingham, the Faraday Institution’s largest and most open science dissemination and networking event is expected to host up to 500 delegates.

Programme

The programme includes nine cross cutting themes
Theme 1: Sustainable battery research and manufacturing
Theme 2: Creating a thriving battery recycling industry
Theme 3: Next-generation lithium-ion materials
Theme 4: The role of metrology in accelerating battery research and commercialisation
Theme 5: Battery systems – optimising performance beyond cell level
Theme 6: Towards a sustainable battery supply chain for the UK
Theme 7: Battery applications and requirements – “bridging an academia/industry divide”?
Theme 8: Beyond lithium-ion
Theme 9: Battery characterisation
4-minute flash talk: Industry Challenges

RHINOCEROS present at Faraday Conference

Partner FORD OTOSAN will present their activities carried out in projects RHINOCEROS and BATRAW, aiming at new routes towards reuse and sustainable recycling of LIBs. Their presentation will be supported by the conference abstract “A holistic End of Life approach of EV Batteries after first life in vehicle and production scrap with OEMs perspective”.

The Faraday Institution

The Faraday Institution is the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis, and early-stage commercialisation. It brings together research scientists and industry partners on commercially valuable projects to reduce battery cost, weight, and volume; improve performance and reliability; and develop whole-life strategies including recycling and reuse.

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Several EU funded projects were clustering together on the 14th of November 2022 at the Raw Materials Week in Brussels to present their objectives and activities related to the recovery and production of raw materials for battery applications from European resources. The clustering event was open for anyone interested in learning about the key activities in this field. Topics covered by those projects ranged from EV batteries dismantling and reuse, to the recovery of materials such as cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite, lithium and others from secondary as well as primary resources available in Europe.

This clustering event was organised by the CROCODILERHINOCEROS and LICORNE EU-funded projects with the participation of the BATRAWRESPECTRELiEF, FREE4LIB and ENICON EU-funded projects.

These projects represent an emerging innovation ecosystem in Europe which encompasses nearly 100 organizations driving the recycling of batteries and the production of raw materials for battery applications from primary and secondary resources available in Europe.

Proceedings of the workshop