Rare-earth elements recovery from post-consumer hard-disc drives

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 106-115

  Abrahami, S T ^a,b   Xiao, Y ^a,c   Yang, Y ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MATERIALS INNOVATION INSTITUTE M2I   (Netherlands)

^c SWINDEN TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrometallurgy; NdFeB magnets; Physical separation; Pyrometallurgy; Rare earth elements; Recycling

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; CALCIUM FLUORIDE; CALCIUM OXIDE; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ELECTRONIC WASTE; EXTRACTION; FLUORSPAR; HYDROMETALLURGY; IRON ALLOYS; LEACHING; MAGNETS; PYROMETALLURGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; SILICA; SLAGS; STEEL SCRAP;

HARD DISC DRIVES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LEACH SOLUTIONS; ND-FE-B MAGNETS; PHYSICAL SEPARATION; RARE EARTH CONTENT; RARE EARTH METALS; RARE EARTHS RECOVERIES;

NEODYMIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84938909467     PISSN: 03719553     EISSN: 17432855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743285514Y.0000000084     Document Type: Article

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