IUCRC Phase III: Colorado School of Mines: Center for Resource Recovery & Recycling (CR3)

资源回收和再循环中心（CR3）是一个多机构的IUCRC，专注于地球物质资源的可持续管理。随着进入第三阶段，CR 3将在第一阶段和第二阶段成就的基础上推进可持续技术，在整个制造过程中回收、再制造和再利用所有类型的材料。这些进步将有助于降低能源成本，提高各种工业部门的盈利能力，同时保护自然资源和环境。2020年全球材料使用量约为90 Gt，未来40年可能达到170 Gt。将这些材料转化为商品的制造业需要能够更有效地实现这种转化的技术，同时产生更少的生产废物和消耗更少的能源。处理生产和消费后废物的回收行业需要更清洁和有利可图的方法。支持材料回收和可回收性的研究是多学科的，必须满足整个供应链中多种商业利益相关者的需求。CR3将两所拥有材料科学和工程专业知识的领先大学（伍斯特理工学院和科罗拉多矿业学院）与资源回收和再循环领域的关键组成部分聚集在一起，以开发全面的技术转移途径。CR3的研究工作涉及产品制造废物，消费后废物，仪器，传感器和控制，拆卸和废物转化为宝藏的设计。 CR3的主要重点是钢铁、有色金属结构金属、轻金属、稀土、能源材料和光伏金属、高价值难熔金属和电子材料等关键行业。这些部门未满足的关键工业需求正在推动该中心的以下研究方向：（a）聚合物材料的再制造和使用，（B）环境可持续的材料回收，（c）减少碳足迹和水足迹，（d）当前材料的低成本替代品，以及（e）自然资源枯竭。CR3研究项目利用两个学术网站的核心和支持技术能力。科罗拉多矿业学院（CSM）在冶金和稀土金属领域为中心带来了研究能力和实际能力，重点是提取冶金过程，无论应用如何。在第三阶段，CR3将继续满足其成员的研究需求，同时通过培训过程工程师和开发短期课程和行业专业会议来推进教育和推广工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling, CR3, is a multi-institution IUCRC that focuses on sustainable stewardship of the earth’s material resources. As it enters Phase III, CR3 will build on its Phase I and Phase II accomplishments to advance sustainable technologies that recover, remanufacture, and reuse all types of materials throughout the manufacturing process. These advancements will help reduce energy costs and increase profitability for a variety of industrial sectors, while protecting natural resources and the environment. Materials use in 2020 is approximately 90 Gt globally, and is likely to reach 170 Gt in the next forty years. The manufacturing industry that converts these materials into commodities needs technologies that enable this conversion more efficiently while generating less production waste and consuming less energy. The recycling industry that processes the production and post-consumer wastes needs methods that are cleaner and profitable. Research supporting materials recovery and recyclability is multidisciplinary and must respond to the needs of a multiplicity of commercial stakeholders across the supply chain. CR3 brings two leading universities with expertise in materials science and engineering (Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Colorado School of Mines) together with key constituents in the resource recovery and recycling area to develop comprehensive technology transfer pathways to industry. CR3 research efforts address product manufacturing waste, post-consumer waste, instrumentation, sensors and controls, design for disassembly and conversion of trash to treasure. The primary focus of CR3 is on key sectors of iron and steel, non-ferrous structural metals, light metals, rare-earths, energy materials and photovoltaic metals, high value refractory metals and electronic materials. Key unmet industrial needs in these sectors are driving the following research thrusts for the Center: (a) polymeric material remanufacturing and use, (b) environmentally sustainable materials recovery, (c) reduction of the carbon and water footprint, (d) low-cost alternatives to current materials, and (e) natural resource depletion. CR3 research projects utilize core and supporting technical competencies across both academic sites. Colorado School of Mines (CSM) brings both research competencies and physical capabilities to the Center in the areas of metallurgy and rare earth metals, with a focus on the process of extractive metallurgy regardless of application. In Phase III, CR3 will continue to address the research needs of its members while also advancing education and outreach efforts though the training of process engineers and developing short courses and specialty conferences for industry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.