Green recycling of EEE:Special and precious metal recovery from EEE

TMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1131-1136

  Meskers, C E M ^a   Hageluken C ^a   Van Damme, G ^a  

^a UMICORE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Batteries; Recycling; Smelter technology; WEEE

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE; BASE METALS; BATTERIES; CIRCUIT BOARDS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; LITHIUM-ION BATTERY; METALLURGICAL PROCESS; ORGANICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SMELTER TECHNOLOGY; STATE OF THE ART; UMICORE; WEEE; ENERGY EFFICIENT;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; METALS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PRECIOUS METALS; RECYCLING; SMELTING; TERMINALS (ELECTRIC); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MINERALS; LITHIUM;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 67449136264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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