Toward Sustainability for Recovery of Critical Metals from Electronic Waste: The Hydrochemistry Processes
By Zhi Sun, Hongbin Cao, Yan-ping Xiao, J. Sietsma, W. Jin, H. Agterhuis, Yang Yang. 2017
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Critical metals are significantly important in the preparation of high-tech materials associated with applications on, e.g., renewable energy, sustainable materials engineering and cleaner production. This importance together with supply risk to a substantial extent within the European Union (EU) has pushed their recovery from waste being highlighted. Electronic waste, usually from end-of-life electronic products, is a notable secondary resource for this purpose because of its distinctive features. A range of critical metals, including rare-earth metals, indium, cobalt and valuable metals, such as copper, silver and gold, are possibly recovered from electronic waste. On top of the current practices of electronic waste recycling, it requires innovations on technology and breakthroughs on process design in order to promote critical metal recovery or electronic waste treatment (in general) to be green and sustainable. Significant potentials are more and more noticed from hydrochemistry (metallurgy) technolog...
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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