Critical Material Recovery from Coal and Coal Byproducts
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 3635
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of Minerals, we invite you to contribute an original research article to a Special Issue on critical material recovery from coal and coal byproducts. Challenges associated with both the resilience of conventional mineral supply chains as well as the demand for specialized technology materials have prompted the emergent importance of critical materials, including rare earth elements, cobalt, lithium, and many others. In an effort to diversify the supply chain, considerable private and public investment has been directed to the development of unconventional resources, notably including coal and coal byproducts. While knowledge on the occurrence and distribution of valuable trace elements in coal extends back several decades, only recent efforts have focused on the extraction and recovery of these materials.
This Special Issue aims to report recent technological developments and state-of-the-art processing approaches for the extraction of critical materials from coal and coal products. Articles should address one or more coal-based material types, including coal, coal refuse, coal combustion byproducts, underclays and shales, preparation plant products, coal mine drainage, or other similar materials. In addition, articles may focus on the underlying science and/or engineering principles, including geochemical characterization, process development, innovative process circuitry, process waste characterization and remediation, techno-economic and life-cycle analyses, or similar study areas.
Dr. Aaron Noble
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mineral processing
- hydrometallurgy
- process development
- separations
- rare earth elements
- technology minerals
- coal refuse
- coal combustion byproducts
- coal mine drainage
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