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Process variables, including impurity control, are described for a promising scrap reclamation technique.
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STANLEY H. LANGER is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has been since 1964. He came from the American Cyanamid Research Laboratories in Stamford. Connecticut, where he was a group leader in exploratory fuel cell research. In addition to hydrometallurgy, his present research interests include electrochemical energy generation and physico-chemical applications of gas chromatography.
THOMAS D. KAUN is on the staff of the Chemical Engineering Division at Ar-gonne National Laboratory. He is presently working in high energy battery research for electric vehicle propulsion and utility toad leveling. He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973 and has completed his work for the M.S. degree which he will receive this year.
MtCHAEL A. NAMETZ received a B.S. in Chemistry in 1969 from Michigan State University. After receiving an M.S. in Chemistry in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. he did research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in organic synthesis and hydrometallurgy. He is presently in his final year of study fora J.D. at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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Langer, S.H., Kaun, T.D. & Nametz, M.A. The cupric chloride hydrometallurgical process for copper recovery from scrap. JOM 28, 9–14 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03354290
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