Topical Advisory Panel Members' Collection Series: Waste Reuse, Recycling, and Recovery—2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 May 2025 | Viewed by 265
Special Issue Editor
Interests: characterization; treatment; the exploitation of metallurgy; iron; steel by-products (i.e., slag, dust, sludge, etc.)
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Dear Colleagues,
Metallurgical, cement and construction, and chemical industries are the most impacting human activities in terms of solid, liquid, and gaseous emissions. Metal production involves the extraction of metals ores processed using hydro-, pyro-, or hybrid-metallurgical processes, and it is always associated with the generation of significant amounts of wastes. The cement and construction industry excavates large amounts of natural stony materials and utilizes organic and inorganic binders for the manufacturing of concrete and road layers. The chemical industry employs several kinds of reagents for the production of fertilizers, soaps, disinfectant, and pharmaceuticals. These processes are generally associated with harmful solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes that require stabilization before their final disposal. Generally, the waste and by-products of the aforementioned industries still contains valuable elements or compounds (i.e., critical metals, advanced ceramics, chemical reagents, and so on) that can be suitably and profitably recovered and used for other purposes, even outside of the root processes which have been generated. Thus, this Special Issue of Applied Sciences focuses on the possibility of recycling, recovering, and reutilizing metals, oxides, salts, or other compounds from industrial wastes. The purpose of this Issue is to collect novel and promising processes which are able to valorize wastes and create new products, pursuing the circular economy and zero-waste filosofy. Preferable papers will be those explaining feasible processes at the laboratory scale, pilot plants, or existing processes, with special regards to the economic aspects of compound extractions and the environmental impact of process residues.
Dr. Davide Mombelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- circular economy
- extractive metallurgy
- metallurgical residues recovery
- secondary raw materials
- waste management
- slag
- dusts
- sludges
- skims
- dross
- cement and concrete
- asphalt
- exhaust salts
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