Constructing environment-friendly return road of metals from e-waste: Combination of physical separation technologies

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 745-760

  Ruan, Jujun ^a   Xu, Zhenming ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

E waste; Environment friendly return road; Metal recovering

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; MAGNETIC SEPARATION; METAL RECOVERY; ROADS AND STREETS; WASTE TREATMENT;

E-WASTES; ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY RETURN ROAD; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; METAL RECOVERING; PHYSICAL SEPARATION; RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY; SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES;

METALS;

EID: 84946238815     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.114     Document Type: Review

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