The primary institutional component of the NTUA’s mission, effected through the integrated complex of studies and research, is to provide advanced higher education of outstanding quality in science and technology. In the framework of HEPHAESTUS project, Laboratory of Metallurgy will be designing and prototyping the Carbon Capture and Transformation Pilot Unit (LabMet) as well as testing in lab scale the reductive smelting of the raw materials and optimizing this process (Tesmet).