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Automated High-Speed Approaches for the Extraction of Permanent Magnets from Hard-Disk Drive Components for the Circular Economy
- Carlo Burkhardt,
- Francisco Ortiz,
- Kaies Daoud,
- Tomas Björnfot,
- Fredrik Ahrentorp,
- Jakob Blomgren and
- Allan Walton
This work describes an automated pilot plant for the extraction of rare-earth (RE) permanent magnets from computer hard-disk drives (HDDs), demonstrating a commercially viable way to exploit these abundant sources of end-of-life (EOL) magnets. A mobi...

