A collaborator and his plans for 2025
We aim to do something that is both important and complex. Therefore, it is crucial to have competent collaborators with cutting-edge expertise in science. For us, Björn Glaser—Associate Professor and Head of the Unit of Processes at the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) in Stockholm—is one of those people.
Björn, a German metallurgist named after Björn Borg, has extensive experience in high-temperature metallurgy processes.
“Next year, I hope to begin studies that will help Scandinavian Ocean Minerals develop sustainable processes for incorporating nodules as an important raw material in the value chain,” he says.
Björn looks forward to advancing his collaboration with us, along with his dedicated team.
“I see a lot of potential. Currently, for example, much of the electrolytic manganese is imported from South Africa and Asia, where it is mined and produced using hydrometallurgical and electrolytic processes, leaving a high environmental impact. If we could find a more sustainable way to extract, for example, ferromanganese from the Swedish seabed and process it cost-effectively, that would be a significant achievement.”
Peter Lindberg, CEO SOM AB
peter.lindberg@som-ab.se, +46(0)73-617 95 20
Peter Lindberg, CEO SOM AB
peter.lindberg@som-ab.se, +46(0)73-617 95 20
Peter Lindberg, CEO SOM AB
peter.lindberg@som-ab.se, +46(0)73-617 95 20
Peter Lindberg, CEO SOM AB
peter.lindberg@som-ab.se, +46(0)73-617 95 20
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On theBothnia Bayseafloor lies small potato-sized lumps – nodules – that contain minerals. In theBaltic Sealies sediments.
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Via an air-lift technique, developed by Scandinavian Ocean Minerals, the seafloor is gently harvested for nodules or bottom sediment.
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On board the ship, nodules are filtered or, if sediment centrifuged
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Water and material that is not used is returned directly to the seafloor, which becomes oxygenated in the process.
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Nodules and sediment are transported to land where nodules are refined into, among other things, manganese, iron, silicon (used for batteries, solar cells and semiconductors) while sediment becomes biogas, hydrogen gas or green coal (used for fossil-free steel) .