Frontier of Environmental Friendly Recycling Technology for Metals

Dear Colleagues,

Due to rapid industrialization, the demand for metals is ever increasing, but the reserves of high-grade ores are diminishing. Therefore, there is a need to explore alternative sources of valuable metals. Rapid industrialization generates a variety of solid wastes. Among the wastes, electronic scraps, medical waste, metal finishing industry waste, spent petroleum catalysts, battery wastes, fly ash, etc. are some of the major industrially produced wastes. Improper disposal of these wastes becomes a key factor in metal contamination and, thus, when leached into atmosphere or water, can cause serious environmental problems. Therefore, issues of Frontier of Environmental Friendly Recycling Technology for Metals ought to be considered, with the aim to eventually provide a collection of papers which focus on the recovery of valuable metals from the solid wastes using environmental friendly recycling technologies.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Recovery of valuable metals from the solid wastes (dust, slag, sludges, fly ash, etc.);
• Utilization of the refractory or complex ores;
• Recovery of valuable metals from the electronic wastes;
• Recovery of valuable metals from the spent catalysts;
• Minerals processing and separations;
• Proymetallurgy and hydrometallurgy to recover the metals.

Prof. Dr. Tiejun Chun
Prof. Dr. Jian Pan
Guest Editors

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