Tin distribution during smelting of WEEE with copper scrap

Proceedings - European Metallurgical Conference, EMC 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 555-568

  Anindya, Alicia ^a   Swinbourne, Douglas ^a   Reuter, Markus ^b   Matusewicz, Robert ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Ausmelt Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ausmelt; Copper; Recycling; Tin distribution; TSL; WEEE

Indexed keywords

AUSMELT; BLACK COPPER; BLISTER COPPER; SCARCE RESOURCES; TSL; VALUABLE METALS; WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; WEEE;

COPPER; COPPER SCRAP; ENERGY UTILIZATION; METALLURGY; OLIVINE; RECYCLING; SLAGS; TIN; TIN SMELTING;

COPPER SMELTING;

EID: 84875473891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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