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The University of Colorado at Boulder announces that its researchers have developed a technology to extract magnesium from ore in a continuous process that requires less energy and generates less waste. University researchers have launched a spinoff company called Big Blue Technologies, where they are working to translate the laboratory innovations into a viable commercial-scale enterprise.<\/p>\n

“I’m doing it in the lab; I’m seeing the product and seeing the results,” says Boris Chubukov, a graduate researcher in CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and one of Big Blue Technologies’ co-founders. “I know the potential is really there.”<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency provided the $3.6 million grant that funded the preliminary research. The following description of the process is from the abstract submitted to win the grant: “Continuous Production and Collection of Magnesium via Carbothermal Reduction.”<\/p>\n

Production of magnesium based on carbothermic chemistry can be realized at temperatures below 2282\u00b0F using a combination of three operational parameters:<\/p>\n

1) reduced pressure atmosphere,<\/p>\n

2) addition of a catalytic material,<\/p>\n

3) extensive size reduction of the reactant materials.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with a continuous condensation and collection system, magnesium produced from this process entails at least a 50% reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions compared to the predominant Pidgeon process.<\/p>\n

The project will employ a variety of high-temperature experimental systems and methods to investigate performance of pelletized reactant materials and obtain recovered metal yields above 85%.<\/p>\n

An optimized composition will be statistically determined and used in a low-temperature prototype reactor system for continuous production of crude magnesium.<\/p>\n

The goal of the project is to produce a cast magnesium product and prove the reduction of energy intensity and economic feasibility with a techno-economic analysis.<\/p>\n

The Big Blue Technologies founders believe this new process could reduce costs enough to enable production in the United States. They have secured almost a half-million dollars so far from backers who agree, including a $225,000 seed grant from the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Technology Transfer program. Early this year, the fledgling company formed a partnership with Nevada Clean Magnesium, a publicly traded company, to further develop, test, and improve the production method.<\/p>\n

www.bigbluetec.com<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2017\/08\/04\/thoroughly-modern-magnesium-process<\/a><\/p>\n

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