Technology to disrupt
the metals industry:
clean, safe, and
urgently needed
High-Temperature Electrolysis makes refining:
faster
cleaner
cost-effective
High-Temperature Electrolysis
Sadoway High-Temperature Electrolysis will displace the legacy technology and disrupt the metals industry.
High-Temperature Electrolysis, a major departure from legacy metals production, uses electricity to turn dirt into metal at commercial scale.
A platform
technology
High-Temperature Electrolysis is less costly, more energy efficient, with near zero emissions to air, water, and soil, allowing faster permiting, and easier siting than
current smelting technology.
Low
emissions
Phase 1
Adapt platform technology
Sadoway Laboratory
Adapt platform technology for specific target metal to derisk, so as to justify upscaling.
Phase 2
Scale up
Sadoway Laboratory
Upscale the process to minimum viable self-heating cell and obtaining the level of purity the customer requires.
Phase 3
De-risk pilot scale
Sadoway Laboratory pilot cell
The pilot-scale cell is designed for continuous operation which means periodic feeding of the cell and tapping of liquid metal. Cell currents may be several thousand amperes. The results obtained informs the design of the commercial-scale cell and give performance data such as purity of primary metal and MWh/tonne to produce metal.
Phase 4
Construction of industrial refinery
Customer site
The Sadoway refinery will be constructed by Hatch to produce thousands of tonnes of metal per year.
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More than half of the elements on the periodic table
can be produced by High-Temperature Electrolysis.
The science is not speculative. All of the world's aluminum today is produced by a variant of High-Temperature Electrolysis.
Sadoway has extended the approach to a much broader family of metals, including iron (licensed to Boston Metal, where he was co-founder), titanium (developed with Norway's Elkem), and now vanadium, uranium, scandium, rare earths, antimony and others.
Antimony
Titanium
Gallium
Neodymian
Lithium
Beryllium
Boran
Sodium
Magnesium
Aluminum
Silicon
Neodymium
Holmium
Uranium
Tungsten
Rhenium
Osmium
Potassium
Calcium
Scandium
Titanium
Vanadium
Chromium
Manganese
Iron
Cobalt
Nickel
Copper
Samarium
Erbium
Lutetium
Iridium
Platinum
Gold
Zinc
Gallium
Germanium
Rubidium
Strontium
Yttrium
Zirconium
Niobium
Molybdenum
Ruthenium
Rhodium
Europium
Thulium
Lead
Bismuth
Lanthanum
Disprosium
Palladium
Silver
Cadmium
Indium
Tin
Antimony
Tellurium
Cesium
Barium
Hafnium
Tantalum
Gadolinium
Ytterbium
Cerium
Praseodymium
Terbium
High-Temperature Electrolysis is the future of metallurgy
The Sadoway scientific ecosystem addresses the need for a stable, strong and sustainable supply chain of critical minerals for industry, defense and other national security needs.
• It's a platform technology. The High-Temperature Electrolysis platform addresses many metals. The cell design and knowledge transfer from chemistry to chemistry.
• It's been proven at scale. Boston Metal, founded by Sadoway in 2012 to apply this approach to steel, has raised over $500M from investors including BMW, Arcelor Mittal, Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Existence proof matters.
• It's cost effective and cleaner. Fewer process steps mean lower capital cost. No coal means dramatically lower emissions. Higher energy efficiency means competitive unit economics at today's electricity prices.
Just to be clear, we are not engaged in the production of metals pursued by other Sadoway related entities, namely steel, ferro alloys, or lithium.
Extraction and processing at the mining site, transportation port,
or energy source
Consider
Saving transportation costs for feedstocks with extraction technology located next to the mine. No longer will ore be shipped across the world for low-cost processing.
Consider
Co-locating metals extraction where energy costs are low. Energy supplied by hydropower, or other low-cost energy sources, is a game changer for the economics of metals processing.
Consider
Saving years of permitting challenges with processing facilities that generate almost no emissions to air, water, or soil.
Consider
The Sadoway smelter is built to the specifications of the mineral and the site and designed to meet tonnage demand.
