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http://dx.doi.org/10.7844/kirr.2021.30.2.3

Current Status of Nickel Smelting Technology  

Sohn, Ho-Sang (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
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Resources Recycling / v.30, no.2, 2021 , pp. 3-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nickel is widely used due to its excellent toughness, malleability and enhanced corrosion resistance. Therefore, nickel is indispensable in our daily lives, and it is widely used in basic to advanced applications such as stainless steel, super alloys and electronic devices. Recently, nickel has been widely used as the major material in secondary batteries and capacitors. The use of nickel continues to rise and has increased from 800 thousand tonnes per year worldwide in the 1970s to about 2 million tonnes in the 2010s. However, nickel is a representative rare metal and ranks 23rd among the abundant elements in the earth's crust. This study reviews the current status of the nickel smelting processes as well as the trend in production amount and use. Nickel is extracted by a wide variety of smelting methods depending on the type of ore. These smelting methods are essential for the development of new recycling processes that can extract nickel from secondary nickel resources.
Keywords
nickel; hydrometallurgy; pyrometallurgy; rare metals; reycling;
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