Principal Investigator Antoine Allanore
Project Website https://allanore-group.scripts.mit.edu/index.php
The Allanore Group is focusing on process design and demonstration and properties measurement. It applies to the development of sustainable materials extraction and manufacturing processes. Professor Allanore has developed alternative approaches to metals and minerals extraction and processing; for example, a waste-free process to produce a potassium fertilizer from earth-abundant raw materials and a new, environment-friendly way of separating metals from other materials. His predilection processing methods rely on using electricity to provide energy-efficient processes. Each research project combines the theoretical—for example, how does the flow of matter affect the performance of a process?—and the phenomenological—what is the actual lab performance of existing and novel materials processes?