Challenges for the recovery of critical metals from waste electronic equipment - A case study of indium in LCD panels

Electronics Goes Green 2012+, ECG 2012 - Joint International Conference and Exhibition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gotze, Ramona ^a   Rotter, Vera Susanne ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID LEACHING; CLOSED LOOPS; END-OF-LIFE; INDIUM CONTENT; LCD PANELS; LITERATURE SURVEY; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; SECONDARY RAW MATERIALS; STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT; WASTE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EXHIBITIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING;

INDIUM;

EID: 84871831431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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