Advanced Methods for Recovery of Valuable Metals from Waste

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, resource recovery has evolved into one of the four pillars that support improved resource management through the prevention of waste and the reuse, recycling, and recovery of wastes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. With the rapidly growing consumption of global metal, large amounts of metal-containing waste (slag, sludge, tailing, scrap metal, etc.) are simultaneously generated and need management. Recovery of the valuable metals from industrial waste or secondary resources is of great significance to alleviate the resource scarcity, reduce the resource waste, and relieve environmental burdens. In recent decades, many efforts have been made to develop novel recovery processes of valuable metals from waste. However, achieving high recovery rates and economic feasibility is limited by the low content of valuable metals and the complex phase composition in the waste. Therefore, further research is needed on the development of advanced methods for recovering valuable metals.

For this Special Issue, we are inviting high-quality original articles focusing both on state-of-the-art approaches and newly developed methods for the recovery of valuable metals from waste. Some areas of interests will cover, but are not limited to:

• Extraction of valuable metals from waste.
• Development of advanced methods and novel processes for metal recovery.
• Optimization of existing processes to increase efficiency and the recovery rate.
• Comprehensive utilization of recovered metals.
• Thermodynamic and kinetic studies of the recovery process.

Prof. Dr. Yonggang Wei
Dr. Lei Li
Guest Editors

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