Recent Progress in Metal Extraction and Recycling
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 63
Special Issue Editor
Interests: new low-carbon metallurgical technology; comprehensive utilization of solid waste resources; clean extraction of complex non-ferrous metal resources
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The demand for metals in low-carbon economy and high-tech industries has recently exploded. The development of clean, efficient, and convenient metal extraction methods and new technologies for high-value recycling of metal secondary resources will help to achieve a sustainable supply of metals and promote the rapid development of strategic emerging industries.
However, high-grade raw metal minerals are increasingly depleted. In the process of metal resources mining, selecting, smelting, and utilization, a large number of complex metal wastes are produced can easily cause serious environmental pollution. Typical metal wastes (such as non-ferrous metallurgical slag, spent lithium-ion batteries, electronic waste, electroplating sludge, anode mud, etc.) are often rich in gold, silver, nickel, copper, zinc, chromium, and other valuable metals, which are valuable secondary metal resources worthy of recycling.
This Special Issue aims to provide the readership of Metals with the most up-to-date research in Metal Extraction and Recycling to explore a promising route for metallurgy in environmental protection, technological innovation and economic feasibility.
We invite submissions of manuscripts to this Special Issue that address the listed topics.
Prof. Dr. Bo Li
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- metal extraction
- metal recycling
- metal separation
- comprehensive utilization
- secondary metal resources
- clean production process
- waste control
- technological new progress
- molten slag
- complex mineral
