Recycling potential of neodymium: The case of computer hard disk drives

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 9506-9513

  Sprecher, Benjamin ^a,b   Kleijn, Rene ^a   Kramer, Gert Jan ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MATERIALS INNOVATION INSTITUTE M2I   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; RECYCLING;

EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENTS; HARD DISK DRIVE; HARD DISK DRIVES; ND-FE-B MAGNETS; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; RARE EARTH METALS; RECYCLING POTENTIAL; SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

NEODYMIUM; PRASEODYMIUM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEODYMIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECYCLING; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER HARD DISK DRIVE; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; RECYCLING; REDUCTION; HUMAN; MAGNET; METALLURGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMPUTERS; HUMANS; MAGNETS; METALLURGY; NEODYMIUM; RECYCLING;

EID: 84906213427     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501572z     Document Type: Article

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