Profile & Expertise
TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION is a private, independent, nonprofit applied research center of international excellence.
TECNALIA is a leading private and independent research and technology organization in Spain and one of the largest in Europe.
TECNALIA is committed to generate business opportunities for industry and it is committed to generate major impacts by means of innovation and technological development. With a team of more than 1450 experts, TECNALIA gets ahead of future challenges by turning technology-based business opportunities into competitive advantages.
TECNALIA includes the Waste Valorisation group of Materials & Process area that has extensive capabilities for lab to pilot scale facilities for waste valorisation by pyro-, hydro- and ionometallurgies. Moreover, it has extensive experience of designing, synthesising and characterizing of different categories of ionic liquids including task specific ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for specific applications (e.g. CRM and other high-tech metal extraction).
Additionally, TECNALIA is member of EIP, EASE (European Association for Storage of Energy), AMNA (Air and Waste Management Association), SPIRE (Sustainable process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency), and EERA (European Energy Research Alliance).
TECNALIA is also member of the EIT Raw Materials, and participates in the MINSPIRE (Multiscale Innovations for Sustainable Production through Integrated Industries in Raw materials) commitment, approved by the EIP RM.
Role in the project
TECNALIA contributes to
a) project management activities by providing relevant input for administration and financial management, it contributes in its own capacity in communication and dissemination activities and it provides input for the project’s semi-annual quality reports (WP1);
b) TECNALIA also contributes to initial research and data collection and preparation activities in the context of preliminary research on identification of regional specificities (WP2) and will explore the potential for synergies’ on retrofitting uptake and innovation by local stakeholders (WP4).
Finally, TECNALIA will host one workshop and one event to facilitate the dissemination of catalysts’ retrofitting and PGM substitution approach developed by the project and the formation of the appropriate collaborations between interested stakeholders based on the exchange of experience among partners.
Contribution to knowledge building in the region
TECNALIA’s knowledge building and dissemination capacities extend far beyond regional and national boundaries.
Being one of the leading institutions in Europe in sustainable development, transport and technology, TECNALIA is in a privileged position to effect extended collaborations in the field of innovative technologies reducing PGMs use in catalysts and therefore contribute to building a broad knowledge base for more sustainable and less import-dependent raw materials’ use for HDVs.
Knowledge building and collaboration advancement is possible through its state of the art technical infrastructure such as a synthesis Laboratory with necessary materials and equipment for synthesis and purification of them from lab to mini-pilot scale (e.g. IL synthesis), and an electrochemical Laboratory.
