Menu
Close
The blast furnace was invented over 150 years ago.
Consider the process of metallurgical extraction, scaled up for commercialization over 150 years ago and still used today. The blast furnace. Toxic, inefficient, and wasteful, with a high environmental impact polluting water, air, and soil. Trucks drive in the coal and iron oxide, and they drive out with steel. The air is black and the people choke. We have a better way.
The solution for converting dirt into metal.
Remember you can't draw copper wire from copper ore. You need copper metal.
Donald Sadoway and his team at MIT developed new and revolutionary processes using extreme electrochemistry that can produce a plurality of elements across the periodic table. Titanium, iron, antimony, gallium, scandium, neodymium and more.
Together they developed the molten oxide electrolysis platform along with the inert anode. Examples include molten borate electrolysis, molten titanate electrolysis, molten lanthanate electrolysis. We refer to these inventions as a group called High-Temperature Electrolysis.
High-Temperature Electrolysis will convert dirt to metal on over half of the elements on the periodic table, including titanates and rare earths.
These technologies produce metal without the use of hydrocarbons and with no greenhouse gas emissions. The products are of higher quality and lower cost than metals produced conventionally. Our game-changing platform technology is cost-effective, scalable and creates value along the entire supply chain.
Just to be clear, we are not engaged in the production of metals extracted by other Sadoway related entities, including those that produce steel, ferro alloys and lithium.
They call it "the missing midstream," the challenges of establishing a robust domestic processing base in the United States. Addressing this challenge has generated bi-partisan support in congress, both in efforts to diversify global supply chains and for increased investment to build up domestic processing capacity.
The Sadoway scientific ecosystem addresses the need for a stable, strong and green supply chain for defense and other national needs.
With High-temperature Electrolysis, the mining and metals industries have a scalable, cost-competitive and sustainable solution to produce a range of metals from critical mineral feedstocks.
Environmental impact of green metallurgy and zero-waste processing technology will be felt worldwide.
High-Temperature Electrolysis is a tonnage metals platform technology, powered by electricity, developed to unlock critical metals and revolutionize metals extraction. The process separates elements cleanly from other minerals and contaminants.
The High-Temperature Electrolysis solo-system cells are modular and scalable and can be tailored for use with a wide range of minerals.
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 and waste are more efficient. Energy supplied by hydropower, solar or wind generation is a game changer for the economics of metals processing.
Consider
Saving years of permitting challenges with processing facilities that generate almost no toxic waste to the air, water or soil.
Consider
The modular solo-system units, created to the specifications of the mineral and the site, are ganged together in a specially designed housing.