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7 books on Rare Metal Recycling [PDF]
October 27, 2024 | 16 |
These books are covering the scarcity of rare metals, advanced recycling techniques, environmental impacts of rare metal mining, challenges in metal recovery, the role of rare metals in technology, economic incentives for recycling and future solutions for sustainable rare metal sourcing.
1. Rare Metal Technology 2021
2021 by Gisele Azimi, Takanari Ouchi, Kerstin Forsberg, Hojong Kim, Shafiq Alam, Alafara Abdullahi Baba, Neale R. Neelameggham
This compilation features papers presented at a symposium focused on the extraction of rare metals and innovative extraction processing methods employed in metal production. The content delves into metals that are vital for contemporary critical technologies, encompassing electronics, electric motors, generators, energy storage systems, and specialized alloys. These rare metals are the fundamental components of emerging critical technologies, attracting considerable attention in recent times. Both academia and industry are dedicated to exploring novel approaches for extracting critical and rare metals from primary and secondary sources. Given that technologies reliant on critical metals are reshaping the world, finding efficient extraction and supply methods is of paramount importance. The rapid evolution of these technologies necessitates the rapid advancement of the resource and processing industry to meet their material requirements. Within this volume, authors from academia and industry share insights into the development, operation, and enhancement of extractive and processing technologies. Topics encompass rare-earth elements (used in magnets, catalysts, phosphors, and more), energy storage materials (such as lithium, cobalt, vanadium, and graphite), alloy elements (including scandium, niobium, and titanium), and materials vital to the electronics sector (such as gallium, germanium, indium, gold, and silver). The contributions also explore diverse processing techniques across mineral beneficiation, hydrometallurgy, separation and purification, pyrometallurgy, electrometallurgy, supercritical fluid extraction, and recycling (in the context of batteries, magnets, electrical, and electronic equipment).
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2. Rare-Earth Metal Recovery for Green Technologies: Methods and Applications
2020 by Rajesh Kumar Jyothi
This book delves into the evolution, applications, extraction, and reclamation of rare earth metals (REMs). REMs hold a pivotal role in industrial applications and daily life, particularly in the context of energy and sustainable development. They are indispensable in numerous modern electronic and electrical devices, including smartphones, computers, and LED lighting. Recovering REMs from secondary sources presents an avenue to meet the burgeoning demand for electronic devices. Given their scarcity, significance, and utility, the recovery, utilization, and recycling of REMs carry paramount importance. This volume encompasses current methodologies for processing REMs from both primary and secondary sources, as well as innovative, environmentally-friendly approaches for their isolation and purification. It also addresses global policies related to their utilization, reuse, reduction, and recycling. Furthermore, the book explores applications in metallurgy, magnets, ceramics, electronics, and a range of technologies in the chemical, optical, and nuclear fields.
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3. Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries: Processing Methods and Environmental Impacts
2019 by Liang An
This book offers an up-to-date examination of recent advancements in the recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries. It delves into various aspects, including an introduction to the inner workings of lithium-ion batteries, the evolution of battery-powered electric vehicles, the potential environmental consequences of spent lithium-ion batteries, preparatory steps for recycling these batteries, recycling methods involving high heat and chemicals, direct processing techniques, the creation of high-value products through recycling, and the impact of recycling on environmental sustainability. This comprehensive resource serves as a vital reference for academics, researchers, and policymakers in academia, industry, and government worldwide.
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4. Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries: The LithoRec Way
2017 by Arno Kwade, Jan Diekmann
This book explores recycling methods for the recovery of valuable and rare materials found in spent lithium-ion batteries, which will become increasingly abundant with the shift towards electric mobility. It covers the engineering aspects of the complete recycling process, starting from disassembly and mechanical preparation to chemical treatment. The book also introduces a framework for assessing environmental and economic factors and offers recommendations for both researchers and potential operators in the field.
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5. Metal Sustainability: Global Challenges, Consequences, and Prospects
2016 by Reed M. Izatt
Metal Sustainability: Global Challenges, Consequences, and Prospects delves into the pressing issue of ensuring sustainable utilization of natural resources, with a particular focus on enhancing the sustainability of metals in the 21st century. The objective is to safeguard the availability of critical metals while addressing the environmental and health implications arising from unrecycled metals. This comprehensive volume explores a range of critical topics and hurdles associated with sustainability across the entire lifecycle of metals, from mining and ore extraction to beneficiation, manufacturing, recycling of end-of-life materials, and the attendant environmental and health concerns tied to waste generation. A global perspective underscores the intricate interdependencies involved in various stages of metal lifecycles. The book places significant emphasis on economic considerations, and it also addresses pertinent environmental, health, political, industrial, and societal dimensions. It advocates for the application of green chemistry principles to ensure metal sustainability. Topics covered encompass precious and specialty metal recycling, both formal and informal recycling practices involving electronic and high-tech waste, global management of electronic waste, metal reuse and recycling in developing nations, the environmental and health repercussions of toxic metal emissions, effects of metal releases on bacterial populations, selective recovery of platinum group metals and rare earth metals, metal sustainability from a manufacturing standpoint, economic viewpoints on sustainability, mineral development, and metal lifecycles, and key issues within the minerals industry. The overarching goal of this book is to heighten awareness regarding the pivotal role metals play in our technologically advanced society, emphasizing the imperative to conserve metal resources across their entire lifecycle, highlighting the significance of improved metal recycling, and outlining the consequences of unchecked metal loss for the environment and human health.
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6. Urban Mining Systems
2014 by Takashi Nakamura, Kohmei Halada
This book places its primary emphasis on the foundational idea of "urban mining" and ongoing initiatives in this field, catering to individuals interested in the intersection of metal resources and environmental sustainability. It introduces recycling and repurposing systems for valuable metals and rare-earth minerals found in discarded and used electronics. The intended readership extends beyond academic researchers in resource management and ecology to include concerned citizens who are actively engaged in safeguarding our future environment and seek practical ways to contribute to a sustainable future.
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7. Extractive Metallurgy of Copper
2002 by William G. Davenport, Matthew J. King, Mark E. Schlesinger, A.K. Biswas
This comprehensive book delves deeper into the industrial aspects of copper extraction from both ore and scrap materials, emphasizing strategies to enhance extraction efficiency. It provides a detailed overview of modern high-intensity smelting processes, including flash, Contop, Isasmelt, Noranda, Teniente, and direct-to-blister smelting, with a particular focus on minimizing SO2 emissions and sulfuric acid production. The text explores recent advancements in electrorefining, especially stainless steel cathode technology. Leaching, solvent extraction, and electrowinning methods are evaluated, considering their implications for optimizing mineral resource utilization. The book also highlights the significance of copper and copper alloy scrap recycling as a valuable source of these materials. Additionally, it covers copper quality control and includes a section on extraction economics, offering chapter summaries and suggested further reading for each topic.
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1. Rare Metal Technology 2021
2021 by Gisele Azimi, Takanari Ouchi, Kerstin Forsberg, Hojong Kim, Shafiq Alam, Alafara Abdullahi Baba, Neale R. Neelameggham
This compilation features papers presented at a symposium focused on the extraction of rare metals and innovative extraction processing methods employed in metal production. The content delves into metals that are vital for contemporary critical technologies, encompassing electronics, electric motors, generators, energy storage systems, and specialized alloys. These rare metals are the fundamental components of emerging critical technologies, attracting considerable attention in recent times. Both academia and industry are dedicated to exploring novel approaches for extracting critical and rare metals from primary and secondary sources. Given that technologies reliant on critical metals are reshaping the world, finding efficient extraction and supply methods is of paramount importance. The rapid evolution of these technologies necessitates the rapid advancement of the resource and processing industry to meet their material requirements. Within this volume, authors from academia and industry share insights into the development, operation, and enhancement of extractive and processing technologies. Topics encompass rare-earth elements (used in magnets, catalysts, phosphors, and more), energy storage materials (such as lithium, cobalt, vanadium, and graphite), alloy elements (including scandium, niobium, and titanium), and materials vital to the electronics sector (such as gallium, germanium, indium, gold, and silver). The contributions also explore diverse processing techniques across mineral beneficiation, hydrometallurgy, separation and purification, pyrometallurgy, electrometallurgy, supercritical fluid extraction, and recycling (in the context of batteries, magnets, electrical, and electronic equipment).
Download PDF
2. Rare-Earth Metal Recovery for Green Technologies: Methods and Applications
2020 by Rajesh Kumar Jyothi
This book delves into the evolution, applications, extraction, and reclamation of rare earth metals (REMs). REMs hold a pivotal role in industrial applications and daily life, particularly in the context of energy and sustainable development. They are indispensable in numerous modern electronic and electrical devices, including smartphones, computers, and LED lighting. Recovering REMs from secondary sources presents an avenue to meet the burgeoning demand for electronic devices. Given their scarcity, significance, and utility, the recovery, utilization, and recycling of REMs carry paramount importance. This volume encompasses current methodologies for processing REMs from both primary and secondary sources, as well as innovative, environmentally-friendly approaches for their isolation and purification. It also addresses global policies related to their utilization, reuse, reduction, and recycling. Furthermore, the book explores applications in metallurgy, magnets, ceramics, electronics, and a range of technologies in the chemical, optical, and nuclear fields.
Download PDF
3. Recycling of Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries: Processing Methods and Environmental Impacts
2019 by Liang An
This book offers an up-to-date examination of recent advancements in the recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries. It delves into various aspects, including an introduction to the inner workings of lithium-ion batteries, the evolution of battery-powered electric vehicles, the potential environmental consequences of spent lithium-ion batteries, preparatory steps for recycling these batteries, recycling methods involving high heat and chemicals, direct processing techniques, the creation of high-value products through recycling, and the impact of recycling on environmental sustainability. This comprehensive resource serves as a vital reference for academics, researchers, and policymakers in academia, industry, and government worldwide.
Download PDF
4. Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries: The LithoRec Way
2017 by Arno Kwade, Jan Diekmann
This book explores recycling methods for the recovery of valuable and rare materials found in spent lithium-ion batteries, which will become increasingly abundant with the shift towards electric mobility. It covers the engineering aspects of the complete recycling process, starting from disassembly and mechanical preparation to chemical treatment. The book also introduces a framework for assessing environmental and economic factors and offers recommendations for both researchers and potential operators in the field.
Download PDF
5. Metal Sustainability: Global Challenges, Consequences, and Prospects
2016 by Reed M. Izatt
Metal Sustainability: Global Challenges, Consequences, and Prospects delves into the pressing issue of ensuring sustainable utilization of natural resources, with a particular focus on enhancing the sustainability of metals in the 21st century. The objective is to safeguard the availability of critical metals while addressing the environmental and health implications arising from unrecycled metals. This comprehensive volume explores a range of critical topics and hurdles associated with sustainability across the entire lifecycle of metals, from mining and ore extraction to beneficiation, manufacturing, recycling of end-of-life materials, and the attendant environmental and health concerns tied to waste generation. A global perspective underscores the intricate interdependencies involved in various stages of metal lifecycles. The book places significant emphasis on economic considerations, and it also addresses pertinent environmental, health, political, industrial, and societal dimensions. It advocates for the application of green chemistry principles to ensure metal sustainability. Topics covered encompass precious and specialty metal recycling, both formal and informal recycling practices involving electronic and high-tech waste, global management of electronic waste, metal reuse and recycling in developing nations, the environmental and health repercussions of toxic metal emissions, effects of metal releases on bacterial populations, selective recovery of platinum group metals and rare earth metals, metal sustainability from a manufacturing standpoint, economic viewpoints on sustainability, mineral development, and metal lifecycles, and key issues within the minerals industry. The overarching goal of this book is to heighten awareness regarding the pivotal role metals play in our technologically advanced society, emphasizing the imperative to conserve metal resources across their entire lifecycle, highlighting the significance of improved metal recycling, and outlining the consequences of unchecked metal loss for the environment and human health.
Download PDF
6. Urban Mining Systems
2014 by Takashi Nakamura, Kohmei Halada
This book places its primary emphasis on the foundational idea of "urban mining" and ongoing initiatives in this field, catering to individuals interested in the intersection of metal resources and environmental sustainability. It introduces recycling and repurposing systems for valuable metals and rare-earth minerals found in discarded and used electronics. The intended readership extends beyond academic researchers in resource management and ecology to include concerned citizens who are actively engaged in safeguarding our future environment and seek practical ways to contribute to a sustainable future.
Download PDF
7. Extractive Metallurgy of Copper
2002 by William G. Davenport, Matthew J. King, Mark E. Schlesinger, A.K. Biswas
This comprehensive book delves deeper into the industrial aspects of copper extraction from both ore and scrap materials, emphasizing strategies to enhance extraction efficiency. It provides a detailed overview of modern high-intensity smelting processes, including flash, Contop, Isasmelt, Noranda, Teniente, and direct-to-blister smelting, with a particular focus on minimizing SO2 emissions and sulfuric acid production. The text explores recent advancements in electrorefining, especially stainless steel cathode technology. Leaching, solvent extraction, and electrowinning methods are evaluated, considering their implications for optimizing mineral resource utilization. The book also highlights the significance of copper and copper alloy scrap recycling as a valuable source of these materials. Additionally, it covers copper quality control and includes a section on extraction economics, offering chapter summaries and suggested further reading for each topic.
Download PDF
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2. Enter Book ID to the search box and press Enter
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