Niobium as a strategic metal for Brazil - UNECE
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Niobium as a strategic metal for BrazilCarlos C. PeiterCentro de Tecnologia Mineral-CETEMBrazil
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Recent report to EU Brazil Sectoral Dialogues ProgramStudy on critical materials production chains: opportunities and threats of the
circular economy
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Partnerships:
• Brazilian research institutions CETEM, IBICT, EESC-USP
• European research/academic institutions: JRC/EC (Ispra, IT) and INAB/ Aachen University (GER)
• Brazilian Company CBMM (cooperation agreement) and Ministry for S, T &I Brazil (additional funds)
• http://sectordialogues.org/projetos/estudo-das-cadeias-produtivas-dos-materiais-criticos-oportunidades-e-ameacas-da-economia-circular
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Critical raw materials origin or market leadershipEU’s critical raw materials list 2020
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Source: Study on EU’s list of critical raw materials 2020, JRC/EC
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Brazilian share in world 10 important ores or metals production
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Brazilian share in some ores/metals world production
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Source: Boletim do setor mineral 2020, MME;Brazil
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Why is Niobium important ?Steels for pipelines, structural steels, superalloys , superconductors
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Photos available at internet sitesSuperalloys
Steel for pipelines
Superconductors (e,g. CERN Particleaccelerator Large Hadron Collider , 27 Km long)
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Why is Niobium important ?
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Under development Nb/ Ti oxides anodes for lithium ionbatteries
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Niobium mines/depositsBrazil
Is Niobium a rare metal ?48 Nb minerals mines/deposits/occurrences in all continents but
strategic for Brazil that operates the higher Nb content mines
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Main niobium producing companies
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Source: Study of critical materials’ production chains: opportunities and threats of the circular economy
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Niobium a strategic metal for BrazilMFA for FeNb
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Ferroniobium MFA Flow details for FeNb ( steels) for transportation
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Niobium circularity is low0.14 for generic Nb and 0.11 for Nb in steels for transportation
based on EU mass flow analysis (Deloitte, 2015)
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Science and Innovations Results from 4.953 papers sample and from 3.092 patents sample collected 2013-19
Steel making and metallurgical use higher shares and energy applications growing
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3%3%
5%
42%29%
1%2%
0.108%
7%
Percentage of Patents per application (2013 – 2018)
AnodeCathodeStainlessAlloySteelSensorCapacitorSuperconductorsElectrodeCatalyst
6% 4%8%
29%
23%
3%2%3%
9%
13%
Percentage of scientific papers by application(2013 – 2019)
AnodeCathodeStainlessAlloySteelSensorCapacitorSuperconductorsElectrodeCatalyst
Source: Study of critical materials’ production chains: opportunities and threats of the circular economy
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Niobium Science and Innovations Patent applicants by countries’ origin
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Source: Study of critical materials’ production chains: opportunities and threats of the circular economy
55%
15%
9%
6%6%
5%1%3%
Percentage of Patents by country (2013 - 2018)
China USA Russian KoreiaWO Japão European Outros
Brazilian R&D on Niobiumis raising and more related to extractivemetallurgyFederal Gov will stablish a new Research Lab . For Niobium and Grapehenematerials
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Niobium sustainability indicatorsFeNb LCA and S LCA results
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Why is Niobium strategic for Brazil ?Some very good reasons
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1. Very large amount of available minerals resources with high niobium content
2. National and international companies operating mines and metallurgical units in Brazil athigh level production standards
3. A promising future due to innovations developed and under development in manycountries (many with brazilian companies partnership)
4. Important contribution to sustainability improving energy and materials conservation(while planning on how to improve circularity)
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