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Metal Recovery from Industrial Solid Waste — Contribution to Resource Sustainability

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REWAS 2013

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Increased demand of metals has driven the accelerated mining and metallurgical production in recent years, causing fast depletion of primary metals resources. On the contrary, the mining and metallurgical industry generates large amount of solid residues and waste such as tailings, slags, flue dust and leach residues, with relative low valuable metal contents. On the other hand, end-of-life (EoL) consumer products form another significant resources. The current technology and processes for primary metals production are not readily applicable for direct metals extraction from these waste materials, and special adaptation and tailor-made processes are required. In the present paper, various solid waste resources are reviewed, and current technologies and R&D trends are discussed. The recent research at author’s group is illustrated for providing potential solutions to future resource problems, including metal recovery from MSW incinerator bottom ashes, zinc recovery from industrial ashes and residues, and rare earth metals recovery from EoL permanent magnets.

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    Yongxiang Yang

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  4. Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA

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Yang, Y. (2013). Metal Recovery from Industrial Solid Waste — Contribution to Resource Sustainability. In: Kvithyld, A., et al. REWAS 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48763-2_41

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