Research Project in Cooperation with CERN

Originally Posted by DanielSchreiber

Dear Community!

Let me briefly introduce myself: I am a student at Vienna University of Economics and Business and currently working on a research project to identify application fields for technologies and processes developed by CERN. Throughout the searching process, many ideas came up during interview sessions with actual users. One of the ideas arisen was to use a heat treatment installment of CERN to recycle metals.
Now I am writing to this community to ask some details regarding scrap metal recycling. In our opinion, the technology could work and help in this field, but as a business student, we do not have the required knowledge to understand this technical process entirely.

So my questions are:
Which metals are possible to split through heat treatment into different stages?
What temperatures need to be reached and for how long is required to hold them?

Thank you very much for your help and willingness to help to support our project. If you have any questions or need further information regarding the technology feel free to contact me, I am happy and ready to answer every question arising.
Yours,
Daniel

Separating lead and aluminum from steel come to mind as potential applications. I would look at conventional furnaces currently employed to do this. I take it you're simply looking at using an alternate source of heat energy to accomplish the separation.