Pure CuRE (Pure Copper Resource Efficiency)

项目Pure CuRE（纯铜资源效率）是一个雄心勃勃的创新项目，耗资100万英镑，旨在开发一个英国制造供应链，用于回收废铜并将其转化为高纯度铜粉原料，用于高价值应用。该项目解决了铜废料中杂质导致材料性能下降的挑战。该项目将开发一种大规模的精炼工艺，使铜可以转化为高纯度原料，其性质与从原始来源生产的铜相似。这种高纯度金属可用于需要高纯度铜的应用，例如民用核能和聚变能源组件，从而减少能源发电的排放。该项目还通过开发循环工艺解决了英国国内铜供应不足的问题，这意味着废铜可以转化为高价值的可持续原料，而无需离开英国。该项目是Aeramine（一家拥有创新金属精炼技术的中小企业）、Phoenix Scientific Industries Ltd（一家生产高质量金属粉末的真空惰性气体雾化专家）和高价值制造弹射器中心、制造技术中心（他们将粉末冶金技术的专业知识带到了国家增材制造中心）之间的合作。

Project Pure CuRE (Pure Copper Resource Efficiency) is an ambitious and innovative c£1M project that aims to develop a UK-based manufacturing supply chain for recycling waste copper and converting it into high purity copper powder feedstock for high value applications. The project addresses the challenge of impurities in copper waste, resulting in down grading of material properties. This project will develop a large-scale refining process so that the copper can be converted into high purity feedstock with similar properties of copper manufactured from virgin sources. This high purity metal can be used in applications, where high purity copper is required, such as civil nuclear and fusion energy components, enabling the reduction of emissions from energy generation. The project also addresses the lack of copper supply within the UK by developing a circular process which means waste copper can be converted into high value sustainable feedstock without it needing to leave the UK. The project is a collaboration between Aeramine, an SME with innovative metal refining technology, Phoenix Scientific Industries Ltd, a specialist in vacuum-inert gas atomisation for the production of high quality metal powders, and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult centre, Manufacturing Technology Centre, who bring expertise on powder metallurgy technology and home to the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing.