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Valuable resource recovery based on the water treatment technologies: a review

수처리 기반 유용 자원 회수 기술: 리뷰

  • Seongpil Jeong (Center for Water Cycle Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kyungjin Cho (Center for Water Cycle Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Seungbeum Suh (Center for Health Care Robot, AI Robot Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Sukho Park (Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)) ;
  • Hongsik Yoon (Department of Sustainable Environment Research, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials) ;
  • Taijin Min (Department of Sustainable Environment Research, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials) ;
  • Joonwoo Park (ER Co., LTD.)
  • 정성필 (한국과학기술연구원 물자원순환연구단) ;
  • 조경진 (한국과학기술연구원 물자원순환연구단) ;
  • 서승범 (한국과학기술연구원 AI로봇연구소 헬스케어로봇연구단) ;
  • 박석호 (대구경북과학기술원 로봇및기계전자공학과) ;
  • 윤홍식 (한국기계연구원 지속가능환경연구실) ;
  • 민태진 (한국기계연구원 지속가능환경연구실) ;
  • 박준우 ((주)이알)
  • Received : 2022.10.17
  • Accepted : 2022.10.31
  • Published : 2022.12.15
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Abstract

Due to the rapid growth of electrical vehicle and portable electronics markets, huge amount of the rare earth elements (REEs) and lithium have been required for the manufacturers globally. Moreover, after life time of the battery pass, the waste batteries containing valuable metal resources should be recycled due to competitions between the countries who manufacturing the batteries. Therefore, the REEs and lithium recoveries from the e-waste and wastewaters become issue recently. However, the commercialized technology for the valuable metal recovery is limited. In this study, the uses of the REEs and other valuable metal resources such as lithium, uranium, and gold and there recoverying methods according to the different water conditions were investigated and summarized. Moreover, the possible expectations and suggestions for the future application of the valuable resource recovery were conducted as a review.

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Acknowledgement

본 연구는 국가과학기술연구원 융합클러스터 사업(CCL21051-100)과 한국과학기술연구원(2E31932)의 지원으로 수행되었습니다.

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