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Emerging Technologies in the Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Critical Metals
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Emerging Technologies in the Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Critical Metals

A special issue of Recycling (ISSN 2313-4321).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 4286

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Dr. Ana Paula Paiva

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Centro de Química Estrutural, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande C8, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: spent catalysts; metals recycling; hydrometallurgy; liquid–liquid (solvent) extraction; organic synthesis; platinum-group metals; silver; iron; chloride media
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Dear Colleagues,

The concept of critical material was created by the related expert commissions of the European Union in 2011. Since then, the number of identified critical materials included in the lists published every three years has been increasing. Metals occupy a major part of those lists, since many hold significant importance for key sectors in the European economy, are hardly replaceable, and have highly threatened supply. It is crucial to invest in the creation and development of sustainable technologies to reuse and recycle metals from end-of-life devices, residues, gaseous and liquid effluents, wastes, and scraps to effectively establish a circular economy and protect the future of the planet and all living species.

In recent years, hydrometallurgy has been playing a key role in the sustainable recycling of metals from several secondary sources. Hence, an updated state of the art of emerging hydrometallurgical technologies collected in a Special Issue is of great value.

This Special Issue welcomes critical reviews, original research, and case study articles dealing with innovative and emerging hydrometallurgical trends to efficiently and selectively recycle metals from secondary sources. Fundamental and applied investigations on hydrometallurgical methodologies would be highly appreciated and may also include solvometallurgical and biological approaches.

Dr. Ana Paula Paiva
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • secondary resources
  • critical metals
  • metals recycling
  • sustainable metals recovery
  • hydrometallurgy
  • solvometallurgy
  • bio-hydrometallurgy

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Selective Recovery of Tin from Electronic Waste Materials Completed with Carbothermic Reduction of Tin (IV) Oxide with Sodium Sulfite
by Wojciech Hyk and Konrad Kitka
Recycling 2024, 9(4), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling9040054 - 26 Jun 2024
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A new approach for the thermal reduction of tin dioxide (SnO2) in the carbon/sodium sulfite (Na2SO3) system is demonstrated. The process of tin smelting was experimentally optimized by adjusting the smelting temperature and amounts of the chemical [...] Read more.
A new approach for the thermal reduction of tin dioxide (SnO2) in the carbon/sodium sulfite (Na2SO3) system is demonstrated. The process of tin smelting was experimentally optimized by adjusting the smelting temperature and amounts of the chemical components used for the thermal reduction of SnO2. The numbers obtained are consistent with the thermodynamic characteristics of the system and molar fractions of reactants derived from the proposed mechanism of the SnO2 thermal reduction process. They reveal that the maximum yield of tin is obtained if masses of C, Na2SO3 and SnO2 are approximately in the ratio 1:2:3 and the temperature is set to 1050 °C. The key role in the suggested mechanism is the thermal decomposition of Na2SO3. It was deduced from the available experimental data that the produced sulfur dioxide undergoes carbothermic reduction to carbonyl sulfide—an intermediate product involved in the bulk reduction of SnO2. Replacing sodium sulfite with sodium sulfate, sodium sulfide and even elemental sulfur practically terminated the production of metallic tin. The kinetic analysis was focused on the determination of the reaction orders for the two crucial reactants involved in the smelting process. Full article
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Recycling of Rhenium from Superalloys and Manganese from Spent Batteries to Produce Manganese(II) Perrhenate Dihydrate
by Katarzyna Leszczyńska-Sejda, Arkadiusz Palmowski, Michał Ochmański, Grzegorz Benke, Alicja Grzybek, Szymon Orda, Karolina Goc, Joanna Malarz and Dorota Kopyto
Recycling 2024, 9(3), 36; https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling9030036 - 30 Apr 2024
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This work presents the research results on the development of an innovative, hydrometallurgical technology for the production of manganese(II) perrhenate dihydrate from recycled waste. These wastes are scraps of Ni-based superalloys containing Re and scraps of Li–ion batteries containing Mn—specifically, solutions from the [...] Read more.
This work presents the research results on the development of an innovative, hydrometallurgical technology for the production of manganese(II) perrhenate dihydrate from recycled waste. These wastes are scraps of Ni-based superalloys containing Re and scraps of Li–ion batteries containing Mn—specifically, solutions from the leaching of black mass. This work presents the conditions for the production of Mn(ReO4)2·2H2O. Thus, to obtain Mn(ReO4)2·2H2O, manganese(II) oxide was used, precipitated from the solutions obtained after the leaching of black mass from Li–ion batteries scrap and purified from Cu, Fe and Al (pH = 5.2). MnO2 precipitation was carried out at a temperature < 50 °C for 30 min using a stoichiometric amount of KMnO4 in the presence of H2O2. MnO2 precipitated in this way was purified using a 20% H2SO4 solution and then H2O. Purified MnO2 was then added alternately with a 30% H2O2 solution to an aqueous HReO4 solution. The reaction was conducted at room temperature for 30 min to obtain a pH of 6–7. Mn(ReO4)2·2H2O precipitated by evaporating the solution to dryness was purified by recrystallization from H2O with the addition of H2O2 at least twice. Purified Mn(ReO4)2·2H2O was dried at a temperature of 100–110 °C. Using the described procedure, Mn(ReO4)2·2H2O was obtained with a purity of >99.0%. This technology is an example of the green transformation method, taking into account the 6R principles. Full article
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