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Commercial Processes for the Extraction of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs)

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Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) play a significant role in the manufacturing of catalysts, super alloys, electronics, space materials, biomedical equipments, jewellery, etc. due to their excellent electrical and thermal conductivity as well as chemical resistivity. The rising demand of PGMs in industrial applications and their limited natural resources have laid emphasis on the development of feasible and eco-friendly processes for the extraction of these metals from different sources to meet their future requirements. Present review reports commercial processes based on pyro-/hydro- and hybrid techniques to recover PGMs from various resources. The salient findings on different processes used for recovery of PGMs have been reviewed with respect to various methodologies and objectives.

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The authors are thankful to the Director, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur for the permission to publish this paper. One of the authors Ms. Rekha Panda would like to extend her sincere gratitude to CSIR, New Delhi (Grant: 31/10 (64)/2017-EMR-I) for providing Senior Research Fellowship to carry out this research work.

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  1. Metal Extraction and Recycling Division, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, 831007, India

    Rekha Panda & Manis Kumar Jha

  2. Department of Applied Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, 826004, India

    Rekha Panda & D. D. Pathak

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Panda, R., Jha, M.K., Pathak, D.D. (2018). Commercial Processes for the Extraction of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs). In: Kim, H., et al. Rare Metal Technology 2018. TMS 2018. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72350-1_11

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