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The aim of CER Smart Sustainable Resources (SSR-UPC) is to create, innovate and transfer knowledge in the field of natural resources, and urban, industrial and mining waste, through technologies for the localization, processing, optimization and reuse of these resources.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Mining; sustainability; smart mining; natural resources; biorefineries; circular economy; urban mining; urban waste; industrial and mineral waste; renewable energy; smart systems; Industry 4.0; artificial intelligence; cybersecurity
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Technological capabilities
CER Smart Sustainable Resources has a multidisciplinary approach and conducts its activity in the following areas:
- Prospecting and mining exploitation using advanced techniques.
- Analysis and physical, chemical and biological treatment of resources and waste generated in their exploitation.
- Use of information and communications technologies for the collection and interpretation of information, through sensors, communications networks and data processing systems.
- Transfer of knowledge to businesses and society in general.
Among the main services it offers are the following:
- Characterization of gaseous emissions.
- Valorization of electrical and electronic waste with sustainable technologies.
- Characterization of biofilms using multi-analyzer microsensors.
- Valorization of industrial gaseous emissions using biotechnological systems.
- Sensor networks.
- Embedded systems with very low consumption.
- ICT and Health.
- Characterization of rock materials.
- Mineral separation processes in rock samples.
- Terrain and subsoil studies.
TOPTechnological fields
Urban mining, Recycling and valorization
Chemical recycling
IoT / Sensors
Relevant equipment
- Mineral processing laboratory, including high-performance analysis equipment, electron microscopy and the application of biological and Industry 4.0 techniques.
- Advanced laboratory of electronic and communication circuits and systems.
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