Recovery of critical and value metals from mobile electronics enabled by electrochemical processing

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 149, Issue , 2014, Pages 228-237

  Lister, Tedd E ^a   Wang, Peiming ^b   Anderko, Andre ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OLI SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical materials; Electrochemistry; Electrowinning; Metal dissolution; Mobile electronics scrap; Recycling

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROWINNING; RECYCLING;

ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSING; METAL DISSOLUTION; MOBILE ELECTRONICS;

STRATEGIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84907278407     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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