Aqueous Metals Processing

鉴于我们当前面临的全球经济和环境挑战，提高可持续性的新技术变得越来越重要。本中心主要从两个方面探讨金属水处理技术。首先，镍和铜等金属被广泛使用，占加拿大经济的很大一部分，但由于越来越多的边缘矿体含有高浓度的有毒元素，如砷和锑，目前对这些金属的提取和加工技术是不可长期持续的。该主席将研究新的含水大气温度和压力加工技术，以确保这些重要金属的可持续生产。其次，将研究含水钼和钼合金沉积工艺，以提高性能并降低几个技术重要领域的成本，例如薄膜太阳能电池的制造和石油和天然气服务部件的涂层。

New technologies that improve sustainability are increasingly important given our current global economic and environmental challenges. This CRC is focused on two aspects of Aqueous Metals Processing to provide such technologies. Firstly, metals such as nickel and copper are used ubiquitously and represent a large part of Canada's economy, but the current extraction and processing technologies for these metals are not sustainable in the long term due to increasingly marginal ore-bodies that contain high concentrations of toxic elements such as arsenic and antimony. This Chair will investigate new aqueous atmospheric temperature and pressure processing technologies to ensure sustainable production of these important metals. Secondly, aqueous molybdenum and molybdenum alloy deposition processes will be investigated to improve performance and reduce costs in several areas of technological importance, such as in the manufacturing of thin film solar cells and the coating of parts for oil and gas service.