[en] In Europe, recycling of end-of-life consumer goods appears as a strategy to secure raw materials supply and to preserve resources. Industrial processes exist to recycle a large number of metals (ferrous metals, base metals and precious metals) but high technology metals, as some of the fourteen metals listed as critic in Europe, are currently not recycled from post-consuming applications. The PhD project focuses on the recycling of these high technology metals by an innovative process based on bio-hydrometallurgy. The main objective is the study of the possibility (technique and economic) to recover gallium from printed circuit boards.
Disciplines :
Geological, petroleum & mining engineering
Author, co-author :
Lambert, Fanny ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Traitement et recyclage des matières minérales
Language :
English
Title :
Biohydrometallurgy, a key for recyclng crtical metals?
Publication date :
December 2013
Event name :
E-waste academy - Scientistc Edition (EWAS 2013)
Event organizer :
SteP Initative, Solving the E-waste proble - University of United Nations