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The blast furnace was invented over 150 years ago.
Consider the process of metallurgical extraction, scaled up for commercialization over 150 years ago and still used today. The blast furnace. Toxic, inefficient, and wasteful, with a high environmental impact polluting water, air and soil. Trucks drive in the coal and iron oxide, and they drive out with steel. The air is black and the people choke. We have a better way.
The solution for converting dirt into metal.
Remember you can't draw copper wire from copper ore. You need copper metal.
Donald Sadoway and his team at MIT developed new and revolutionary processes using extreme electrochemistry that can produce a plurality of elements across the periodic table. Titanium, iron, antimony, gallium, scandium, neodymium and more.
Together they developed the molten oxide electrolysis platform along with the inert anode. Examples include molten borate electrolysis, molten titanate electrolysis, molten lanthanate electrolysis. We refer to these inventions as a group called High-Temperature Electrolysis.
These technologies produce metal without the use of hydrocarbons and with no greenhouse gas emissions. The products are of higher quality and lower cost than metals produced conventionally. Our game-changing platform technology is cost-effective, scalable and creates value along the entire supply chain.
Just to be clear, we are not engaged in the production of metals extracted by other Sadoway related entities, including those that produce steel, ferro alloys and lithium.
--Bipartisan Policy Center
They call it "the missing midstream," the challenges of establishing a robust domestic processing base in the United States. Addressing this challenge has generated bi-partisan support in congress, both in efforts to diversify global supply chains and for increased investment to build up domestic processing capacity.
The Sadoway scientific ecosystem addresses the need for a stable, strong and green supply chain for defense and other national needs.
With High-temperature Electrolysis, the mining and metals industries have a scalable, cost-competitive and sustainable solution to produce a range of metals from critical mineral feedstocks.
Sadoway Incorporated delivers radical innovation in metals recovery, spanning primary extraction through recycling. The process is based upon extreme electrochemistry processing in high-temperature non-aqueous media. In extreme electrochemistry, by the action of electric current, mineral feedstock is converted into metal product. The Sadoway High-Temperature Electrolysis technology addresses the unique requirements of each mineral whether grouped as borates, oxides, or sulfides.
Environmental impact of green metallurgy and zero-waste processing technology will be felt worldwide.
Supply chain resilience translates into business stability. Our unique process combines green metallurgy, a no emissions metal production tech, with zero-waste; minimal environmental footprint compared to that of traditional practices.This Extreme Electrochemical process is eco-friendly and eliminates toxic halides and hazardous tailings. It has high recovery and selectivity – achieving >98% conversion. The process is adaptable for mine feedstocks, tailings reprocessing and waste recovery. It is clean and compliant.
High-Temperature Electrolysis is a tonnage metals platform technology, powered by electricity, developed to unlock critical metals and revolutionize metals extraction. The process separates elements cleanly from other minerals and contaminants.
The result is a compression of the flow chart, to achieve one-pot smelting—faster, cleaner, greener and electric. High-Temperature Electrolysis encompasses the many forms of molten oxide electrolysis, invented by Donald Sadoway at MIT.
The High-Temperature Electrolysis solo-system cells are modular and scalable and can be tailored for use with a wide range of minerals.
Once optimized for the instant chemistry of your mineral feedstock, the cells will be ganged together and fitted into a portable housing unit. This offers for a uniquely customizable and scalable solution for metals extraction. The units can adapt and grow to the needs of the mining operation, and be deployed quickly with limited operational risk and transportation cost. The units are co-located near your mining site, energy source, or another optimal location.
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The modular solo-system units, created to the specifications of the mineral and the site, are ganged together in a specially designed housing.
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Saving transportation costs for feedstocks, with extraction technology located next to the mine. No longer will ore be shipped across the world for low-cost processing.
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Co-locating metals extraction where energy costs are low and waste are more efficient. Energy supplied by hydropower, solar or wind generation is a game changer for the economics of metals processing.
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Saving years of permitting challenges with processing facilities that generate almost no toxic waste to the air, water or soil.