Special Issue "Recovery of Metals from Alternative and Urban Ores"
A special issue of Resources (ISSN 2079-9276).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial symbiosis; industrial ecology; life cycle assessment; eco-efficiency; circular economy
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Interests: smart ICT technologies; proces and system engineering; energy systems management; environmental systems management; water resources management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The depletion of natural resources has significantly increased the importance of resource recovery from various waste streams. Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) is one of the fastest growing waste streams globally, and, at the same time, has a significant value since it contains a large variety of metals. The term “urban mining” was initially introduced to describe the recovery of metals from secondary metal stocks in urban locations, providing an alternative resource to conventional mountainous mines. Nowadays, the term has evolved and indicates the recovery of compounds from various types of anthropogenic stocks, including infrastructures, abandoned buildings, and discarded products. Various methods are currently being implemented for the recovery of metals from urban mines, which include both conventional (e.g., pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy/chemical leaching) and emerging (e.g., electrochemistry, plasma, ionic liquids) technologies. This Special Issue of the journal Resources, entitled: “Recovery of Metals from Alternative and Urban Ores”, welcomes both experimental and computational manuscripts focusing on the recovery of metals from alternative urban mines.
Dr. Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis
Dr. George Arampatzis
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Urban Mining
- Metal Recovery
- Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE)
- Rare and Precious Metals (RPMs)