Newsletter #6 now published
25 May 2023
The sixth SisAl Pilot project newsletter is now out! Read the issue here to discover the latest progress and achievements made within the project!
HADEA’s summary of successful projects
24 Mar 2023
HADEA has recently published its summary “An insight into successful raw materials projects” and SisAl Pilot is one of the success case of the Research […]
HydroMetEC: Hydrometallurgy in raw materials utilization – an educational and communication programme
16 Mar 2023
Next September 2023 it will take place online the Life Long Learning Course: HydroMetEC: Hydrometallurgy in raw materials utilization – an educational and communication programme. […]
New SisAl Pilot article available
28 Feb 2023
Take a look at the new output generated in the frame of the SisAl Pilot project! The article focuses on the green production of silicon […]
Summer Schools for Valorization of Secondary Raw Materials
23 Feb 2023
The SisAl Pilot (www.sisal-pilot.eu/) and SisAl slag (https://sisalslag.eu/) project partners are glad to invite you to the Summer Schools for Valorization of Secondary Raw Materials, […]
Best wishes from SisAl Pilot!
21 Dec 2022
SisAl Pilot partners want to wish you all the best for the upcoming holidays!
Join the online CORALIS workshop on industrial decarbonization (19.12.2022)
06 Dec 2022
We are glad to inform you that the CORALIS project is organizing an online workshop, titled “Thrive in the energy transformation: Bringing industrial decarbonisation alive […]
Hybrid course and seminar in Hydrometallurgy, November 21-24, Athens
14 Nov 2022
SisAl Pilot is glad to invite you to a hybrid course and seminar in Hydrometallurgy, which will be held on November 21-24 in Athens. Registrations […]
SisAl Pilot at ECOMONDO 2022
08 Nov 2022
Our dissemination manager Valentina Cinti is presenting the SisAl Pilot Project in the frame of the ECOMONDO event, taking place in Rimini (Italy), from 8 to 11 November. The SisAl Pilot […]
Great success for SisAl Pilot Clustering event!
10 Oct 2022
On October 6th SisAl Pilot partners jointly organized with EIT Raw Materials a clustering event, where more than 30 experts gathered to discuss how to […]
The project coordinator interview at FUNDICIONES REY
28 Sep 2022
In June 2022, the project coordinator Gabriella Tranell from NTNU was interviewed on TV at FUNDICIONES REY premises, in Spain. The whole project consortium was […]
Let’s meet Nishan Simkhada, MSc student at NTNU
15 Sep 2022
Meet one of the MSc students contributing to the SisAl Pilot Project: Nishan Simkhada is conducting experiments to test the sustainable SisAl process for silicon […]
Meet one of SisAl Pilot’s PhD students: Harald Philipson
08 Sep 2022
Meet one of SisAl Pilot’s PhD students Harald Philipson and get to know more about the project and his contribution to the demonstration of the […]
New SisAl Pilot article on Teknisk ukeblad magazine
04 Aug 2022
In June a new SisAl Pilot article, elaborated by the project coordinator NTNU, was published on the Norwegian technical weekly magazine “Teknisk Ukeblad”. A short […]
SisAl Pilot consortium visit at FUNDICIONES REY
30 Jun 2022
The consortium visit at FUNDICIONES REY of last week!
SisAl Pilot on the daily Galician Television News!
27 Jun 2022
Last week SisAl Pilot project coordinator was interviewed on the daily Galician Television News reaching out an audience of more than 170.000 people. Gabriella Tranell […]
SisAl Pilot progress meeting in Santiago de Compostela
21 Jun 2022
The SisAl pilot partners gathered in Santiago de Compostela for the M24 progress meeting, hosted by CITMaga, at the Faculty of Maths, Partners discussed the […]
SisAl Pilot tests campaign: the slag product
17 Jun 2022
In addition to silicon, the SisAl Pilot process produces a calcium-aluminate slag with a high alumina content. The slag can either be sold to the […]
The silicon product of the SisAl Pilot tests campaign
10 Jun 2022
The silicon product produced during the pilot experiments at Elkem is a silicon-aluminium alloy. The alloy itself is of interest to the partners in the […]
SisAl Pilot tests campaign: the robot
01 Jun 2022
At Elkem’s pilot site in Kristiansand, an IRB 7600-500/2,55 Industrial Robot is used for handling the moulds with hot metal. The robot carefully moves the […]
SisAl Pilot process: the pouring
23 May 2022
In this new video shot during the SisAl Pilot tests campaign implemented at Elkem premises, we can see the furnace during pouring. The furnace is […]
SisAl Pilot process: new video about sampling
10 May 2022
Samples are taken continuously to study the reduction of silica with aluminium to form silicon. The samples can be taken by using a small sampling […]
SisAl Pilot: Charging and Stirring
02 May 2022
During the pilot trials at Elkem, three different charging strategies are used. Two of them starts of by heating the SiO-CaO-slag, and then adding the […]
Visit at Mintek
27 Apr 2022
Last in week Maria Wallin, from NTNU (the project coordinator), visited the fully equipped lab-scale, the analytical labs and pilot facilities installed at Mintek, in […]
The furnace used in the tests at Elkem
15 Apr 2022
Today we are glad to share with you the video about the furnace used in the tests implemented by SisAl Pilot. The furnace at Elkem […]
They talk about us on the Teknisk Ukeblad in Norwegian!
01 Apr 2022
The Teknisk Ukeblad (TU, English: Technical Weekly Magazine), a Norwegian engineering magazine, published an article about SisAl Pilot on March 21st, potentially reaching more than 150.000 readers. […]
SisAl Pilot tests at Fundiciones Rey in Galicia (Spain)
31 Mar 2022
The SisAl Pilot Project has so far carried out 9 pilot experiments at Fundiciones Rey in Galicia (Spain). Fundiciones Rey is testing the variables of the novel […]
The raw materials used in the pilot: new video released
21 Mar 2022
The raw materials used in the pilot are aluminium, silica and calcium oxide. The aluminium sources are shavings, dross and blocks, supplied by Hydro. A […]
First video of the SisAl Pilot tests implemented at Elkem released!
10 Mar 2022
Elkem Technology Pilot Department has conducted the first large-scale aluminothermic experiments, with 22 pilot experiments, in Kristiansand in Norway. Different raw material mixes has been […]
SisAl Pilot article released in Norwegian newspaper
16 Feb 2022
An article about the SisAl Pilot project was published on the Fedrelandsvennen newspaper today! The project coordinator from NTNU and the Elkem team were interviewed […]
