An environmentally friendly process for the recovery of valuable metals from spent refinery catalysts

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 568-576

  Rocchetti, Laura ^a   Fonti, Viviana ^a   Vegliò, Francesco ^b   Beolchini, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

environmentally friendly process; ferric iron leaching; global warming; life cycle assessment; metal recovery; Spent catalyst

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSTS; EXTRACTION; GLOBAL WARMING; IRON; LASERS; LEACHING; LIFE CYCLE; METAL REFINERIES; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REFINING; VANADIUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PROCESS; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; FERRIC IRON; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); RECOVERY OF VALUABLE METALS; SPENT CATALYST;

METAL RECOVERY;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; FERRIC ION; METAL; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SULFURIC ACID; VANADIUM;

ALUMINUM; CATALYST; GLOBAL WARMING; IRON; LEACHING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFURIC ACID; SUSTAINABILITY; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXTRACTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LEACHING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; METAL INDUSTRY; METAL RECOVERY; PH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CATALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

CATALYSIS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; METALS; NICKEL; VANADIUM;

EID: 84878330585     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X13476364     Document Type: Article

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