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Dr.
François Cardarelli, President and Owner of ELECTROCHEM TECHNOLOGIES & MATERIALS INC.,
is a
chartered
industrial chemist with a strong physical-chemistry background and a
Doctorate in
Chemical
Engineering from the University Paul
Sabatier (UPS) -Toulouse
III.
He has over 34 years of
industrial experience in North America and Europe in developing
electrochemical, chemical, and metallurgical processes for winning,
refining or producing a variety
of metals, alloys and inorganic chemicals either from aqueous
solutions or molten salts media.
A particular area of his professional expertise is
the electrochemical treatment of mining residues, metallurgical wastes
and
industrial effluents,
the electrochemical remediation, the electrochemical regeneration of
spent
pickling liquors (SPLs) and waste acids, the electrochemical production
of vanadium electrolyte and vanadium compounds, the electrowinning of
metals
from pregnant leach
solutions (PLS), the high temperature electrowinning of refractory
metals
such as titanium and
tantalum from fused salts or molten slags, the selection of advanced
materials,
and finally the manufacture of
novel industrial electrode
materials.
Dr. François
Cardarelli is a member in good standing of the following
professional organizations and societies: American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AIChE)[Lifetime member], American
Chemical Society (ACS), Chemical
Institute of Canada
(CIC), Canadian Society for Chemical
Engineering (CSChE), The
Electrochemical Society (ECS), Mineralogical
Society of America (MSA), Ordre des Chimistes du Québec
(OCQ),
and The Minerals,
Metals and Materials Society (TMS).
For
additional
information please visit the following URL: [www.francoiscardarelli.ca].
For a list of publications and related citations you can visit François
Cardarelli profile on ResarchGate
or GoogleScholar.
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Dr.
François Cardarelli had wide-ranging commercial and
industrial
experience of materials, commodities and industrial processes
(listed hereafter from most recent to past):
- at 5N Plus Inc.
(Saint-Laurent, QC, Canada),
he was Manager of
Recycling for developing and implementing novel
hydrometallurgical processes for the recycling of thin films
photovoltaic solar panels and the recovery of minor metals such as
tellurium and cadmium from
end-of-life (E-o-L) solar panels, various metallurgical and industrial
wastes. He also initiated and lead
a
program for the geological exploration
and mining prospection of new ore deposits worldwide for the sourcing
of tellurium-rich ores and tailings.
- at Materials and
Electrochemical
Research (MER) Corp. (Tucson,
Arizona, USA), he was Principal
Electrochemist and Materials Expert working on the
electrowinning of titanium metal and various alloys powders from
composite
anodes by the
MER Process. On the other hand, he participated to the synthesis of
titanium alloys powders prepared by
various metallothermic processes (e.g., magnesio-, sodio-, or
calciothermic). He designed and scaled-up
molten salt electrolyzers from bench scale to pilot plant scale,
including
the design and sizing of auxiliary equipments (e.g., fixed and
fluidized bed
chlorinators, dust collectors and cyclones, vacuum
evaporation retort, chlorine gas scrubber, lithium brines recovery
system).
- at RIO TINTO Iron &
Titanium Inc.
(Sorel-Tracy, QC, Canada), as
Principal Chemist
Materials, he lead the
development,
scale-up and
application of novel electrochemical technologies he invented. One
patented process was used for
electrowinning
titanium metal directly from molten titania slags and other
titanium-rich
feedstocks. The second process is used for the electrochemical recovery
of metallic iron and the concurrent production of chlorine gas from
iron-rich metal chlorides originating from carbo-chlorination residues. He also
provided
scientific and technical support for the benchmarking of brick and
castable refractories
used in
the company iron and steelmaking plants. Concurrently and in close
collaboration with Dr. Michel Guéguin, he worked
extensively on
the chemistry and mineralogy of
titania slags and other titanium-rich feedstocks. Finally, he provided
in-house training, scientific and technical support regarding the
radioactivity
of some titanium-rich feedstocks, ores and concentrates.
- at AVESTOR Corp.
(formerly ARGOTEH
Productions, now BATHIUM)
(Boucherville, QC, Canada), he
worked first as
Battery Product
Leader, in charge of lithium polymer batteries for electric vehicles,
down-hole drilling and telecommunications applications, defining
technical specifications for
lithium polymer
batteries according to
customer's requirements. Later he worked as an Industrial
Electrochemist & Materials Expert for
providing
scientific
and technical support for the metallurgy and the processing of thin
film lithium metal anodes. He
was also in charge
of the sourcing of strategic raw
materials and metals used in lithium polymer batteries such as lithium
and vanadium. Finally, he invented
and developed two pyrometallurgical and
hydrometallurgical processes for the recycling spent lithium metal
polymer batteries.
- as a registered
professional
consultant in Toulouse, he
solved
problems in electrochemical engineering, the selection of industrial
electrode
materials, the design of advanced batteries, the selection of corrosion
resistant materials towards molten alkali-metal hydroxides, the
characterization of natural radioactivity in rare earth
concentrates (monazite, xenotime, loparite, bastnaesite), and the
design of high-temperature processes. During that period he was also
doing presentations on Nuclear Sciences and Technologies in relation
with the 100th anniversary of the discovery of radioactivity.
- as a
research scientist, at the ENSIACET-Laboratory
of Chemical Engineering
(Toulouse, France),
he
co-invented and developed electrochemical processes conducted in
molten salts
for the preparation of titanium
and
tantalum industrial electrodes for the evolution of oxygen in acidic
media with
the financial support of Électricite de
France
(EDF);
- as
design engineer, at
the CNRS-Laboratory
of Marine Biogeochemistry
(Paris, France), he built and used electrochemical
sensors for
monitoring the pollution by heavy metals especially zinc, cadmium,
mercury, and lead in natural and sea waters;
- as
scientist, at
the UPMC-Laboratory
of
Electrochemistry (Paris,
France), he designed and built a
nuclear
scintillating detector for tracing beta-emitting radiolabeled
compounds.
Dr.
François Cardarelli has authored several reference handbooks
such as
the Materials
Handbook. A Concise Desktop Reference
and the Encyclopaedia of
Scientific Units, Weights
and Measures
both published worldwide by SPRINGER
London &
New York. He is also inventor or co-inventor of several
electrochemical, hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes
that are all protected by international patents.
He is also a gifted hands-on scientist, having
experimented, invented, designed, built and tested
numerous electrochemical pilot installations. As chemist,
by both passion and training, he
is always strongly
health and safety oriented in all the aspects of a project from the
laboratory until its final implementation.
Because of its geological background, he is also actively
involved in the organization of mining prospection and geological
exploration programs and
the participation to field trips for auditing open-pit and underground,
either abandonned or active, mine
sites
for the sourcing
of strategic
raw materials and metals together with a team of US and Canadian
geologists and mining engineers.
In addition to
his
scientific and technical expertise,
he has developed strong skills
for evaluating the economical feasibility (CAPEX & OPEX) and
financial analysis of novel technologies.
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