Scarce metals in conventional passenger vehicles and end-of-life vehicle shredder output

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4591-4599

  Widmer, Rolf ^a   Du, Xiaoyue ^a   Haag, Olaf ^b   Restrepo, Eliette ^a   Wäger, Patrick A ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Bachema AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; TANTALUM; TIN; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES; WASTE TREATMENT; ZIRCONIUM;

END-OF-LIFE VEHICLES; LIGHT FRACTION; MASS FRACTION; MUNICIPAL WASTE; PASSENGER VEHICLES; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; RECYCLING POTENTIAL; SHREDDER PLANTS;

AIRSHIPS;

ANTIMONY; BERYLLIUM; CERIUM; COBALT; DYSPROSIUM; GADOLINIUM; GALLIUM; GERMANIUM; INDIUM; LANTHANUM; LITHIUM; METAL DERIVATIVE; MOLYBDENUM; NEODYMIUM; NIOBIUM; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; PRASEODYMIUM; RHENIUM; RUBIDIUM; RUTHENIUM; SAMARIUM; SILVER; STRONTIUM; TANTALUM; TELLURIUM; TERBIUM; TIN; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIUM; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METAL;

AUTOMOBILE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE; METAL; RECYCLING;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONICS; END OF LIFE VEHICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; SWITZERLAND; WASTE; ANALYSIS; CAR; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PROCEDURES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SWITZERLAND;

AUTOMOBILES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; RECYCLING; SWITZERLAND; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84926433494     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es505415d     Document Type: Article

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