IMK LABORATORY
Established in 2021 from chemical engineer Stanko Ilikj Popov
Main goals when the laboratory was opened were chemical and mechanical control of building materials for civil construction, innovations in the waste industry management, innovations in usage of industrial waste, increasing the environmental awareness threw using industrial, communal and civil construction waste as raw materials for new products.
In 2022 the company IMK got the attention of a Switzerland potential partner and by the end of year 2022 got foreign capital for investing in laboratory instruments.
In the same year IMK was supported by start up fond SECO (Federal Department of Economic Affairs of Switzerland).
The study was done for usage of heavy oil as burning fuel for electricity production. The problem was the aero pollution and the content of sulphur in the heavy oil. The solution that IMK presented was SCR catalyst unit decreasing the levels of pollutants to permissible limits.
IMK as company developed chemical method for neutralization of hexavalent chromium present in solid and liquid materials with using of advanced machinery and techniques.
The same approach of work can be used for arsenic, cyanide and heavy metal removal.
The content of hexavalent chromium in the samples was decreased from 2.5 g/l to 0.005 mg/l.
Iron, copper and zinc are materials which are getting more and more expensive by the day
IMK laboratory found a suitable bonding mixture to make briquettes from industrial waste with small granulation creating briquettes. These briquettes can be transported as raw material for high furnaces or melt shops and the material can be transported as solid form not in ash form.
IMK Laboratory used washed metallurgical sludge for increasing the heat resistance and earthquake resistance of bedding materials
In this research the goal was to stabilize the bed of the soil where civil construction should take place making it seismologically more stable
IMK generated a way of using old tyres and giving them a new life form and new usage as energy fuel, heat producer and raw material for paving elements.
By separating the metallic from non metallic part from the sludge from EAF furnace we can get two portions of usable material.
One portion is metallic part rich with iron.
Thomas phosphate, also called Thomas flour or Thomas slag, is a phosphorus-rich by-product that is formed in the Tomas Process, where limestone is used to remove phosphorus from the iron. Thomas phosphate contains approximately 43% CaO and 21% P2O5. The rest is mainly FeO and SiO2.