Innovative Separation Techniques for Sustainable Recycling of Solid Waste
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Purification Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2026 | Viewed by 66
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pretreatment; physical separation; pyrometallurgical technologies; leaching; separation and purification; regeneration; direct repair technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Separation and purification are the core technologies of mineral processing, which determine the efficiency, sustainability, and economic feasibility of valuable resource recovery. The research on the resource utilization of solid waste has received widespread attention with the excessive consumption of key metal resources. There is an urgent need to develop innovative separation methods to address the challenges of complex solid waste composition and low separation efficiency.
This Special Issue "Innovative Separation Techniques for Sustainable Recycling of Solid Waste" focuses on the resource recycling of mining, nonferrous metal, coal-based, electronic solid waste, and other types of solid waste, aiming to showcase cutting-edge research in physical and chemical pretreatment separation, pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy, material preparation technology, and in situ repair technology. We invite contributions to advance fundamental theories, experimental methods, computational models, or industrial applications in the following fields:
- Mining, nonferrous metal, coal-based, electronic solid waste;
- Intelligent disassembly, mechanical crushing, solvent extraction, heat treatment, and novel pretreatment methods;
- Gravity separation, airflow separation, magnetic separation, flotation, and other separation methods for valuable components;
- Pyrometallurgical technologies including high-temperature melting, carbon thermal reduction, and biomass pyrolysis gas reduction;
- Acid/alkali/bioleaching/ionic liquid/deep eutectic leaching of valuable metals;
- Solvent extraction/precipitation/ion exchange separation and purification technology;
- Material preparation of solid waste pretreatment products by sol-gel method, coprecipitation method, and high-temperature solid phase method;
- Direct repair technology of electrode material including solid phase/liquid phase/electrochemical.
Dr. Yuanpeng Fu
Dr. Zhen Shang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solid waste
- pretreatment
- separation
- pyrometallurgical technologies
- leaching
- separation and purification
- regeneration
- direct repair technology
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