• 융복합기술연구소 논문집
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.13-17
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• 2011

The car industry is one of the technological applications which more rare earth metals employes as three-way catalysts. Therefore, the recovery of rare earth metals from the used automotive three-way catalysts could be important source to obtain these metals. This work presents the analysis of market and demand for rare earth metal in automotive three-way catalyst and introduces the dry and the wet processes for the recovery of rare earth metals from used three-way catalyst. Finally, the alternative methods to conventional wet processes was simply suggested based on the economic and ecological point of view.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.74-83
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• 2012

희토류 금속의 제련은 광석에서부터 파분쇄, 선별과정을 거쳐 정광을 만들고, 정광 중의 희토류 성분을 추출하고 성분별로 분리하는 분리정제공정을 거쳐 희토류산화물이나 염화물과 같은 희토류화합물을 제조한 다음 희토류화합물에서 금속을 추출해내는 환원과정을 거친다. 본 고에서는 대표적 희토류 광물로서 불탄산염계광물인 바스트나사이트(bastnasite, ((RE)($CO_3$)F)와 인산염계 광물인 모나자이트(monazite,(RE)($PO_4SiO_4$))의 분해 침출과 분리정제 방법에 대해서 간략히 기술하고, 분리공정의 산물인 희토류화합물에서부터 범용 희토류금속 제조법으로 사용되고 있는 금속열환원법과 용융염전해법에 대하여 개략적인 내용을 소개하였다.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2023

Liquid metal extraction (LME), a pyrometallurgical recycling method, is popular owing to its negligible environmental impact. LME mainly targets rare-earth permanent magnets having several rare-earth elements. Mg is used as a solvent metal for LME because of its selective and eminent reactivity with rare-earth elements in magnets. Several studies concerning the formation of Dy-Fe intermetallic compounds and their effects on LME using Mg exist. However, methods for reducing these compounds are unavailable. Fe reacts more strongly with B than with Dy; B addition can be a reducing method for Dy-Fe intermetallic compounds owing to the formation of Fe₂B, which takes Fe from Dy-Fe intermetallic compounds. The FeB alloy is an adequate additive for the decomposition of Fe₂B. To accomplish the former process, Mg must convey B to a permanent magnet during the decomposition of the FeB alloy. Here, the effect of Mg on the transfer of B from FeB to permanent magnet is observed through microstructural and phase analyses. Through microstructural and phase analysis, it is confirmed that FeB is converted to Fe₂B upon B transfer, owing to Mg. Finally, the transfer effect of Mg is confirmed, and the possibility of reducing Dy-Fe intermetallic compounds during LME is suggested.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.121-125
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• 2015

Distribution of rare earth metals (REMs) and rare valuable metals (RVMs) contents in coal ashes (fly ash, bottom ash, and pond ash) and leachate from 11 coal-fired power plants in Korea were investigated. Coal ashes and leachates were found to contain important REMs and RVMs such as Yttrium (Y) and Neodymium (Nd), which was in the range of 23~75 mg/kg. However, it still requires developing effective recovery and separation methods in order to utilize REMs and RVMs in ash and leachate. Recovery of valuable elements (Y and Nd) from various and extensive ash sources (8.21 million tons/year in 2013) can provide the existing power plants with additional profit; therefore, it can significantly improve economics of the power plants.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the international symposium on the fusion technology
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• pp.563-568
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• 2003

Recently, the recycled amount of electric, mechanical parts, and appliances in artifacts has increased. These products use valuable rare metals such as platinum group metals and gold, which are included occasionally as additives. Rare metals are maldistributed in the world and most of them are produced in small quantities. A small amount of rare metals used in the appliances causes a large loss of rare metal resources because of the lack of an economically recycling method. The present recycling technologies including physical and chemical separation methods that are considered for recycling of electric, mechanical parts and appliances.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.48-57
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 폐 영구자석 스크랩에 함유된 희토류원소(Rare Earth Element, R.E.)를 첨가하여 고강도 회주철의 제조 방법을 검토하였다. 폐 영구자석 스크랩에 함유되어있는 희토류원소가 회주철의 응고 시 복합유화물 및 A형 흑연 형성을 촉진하여 조직 및 기계적 특성 향상에 효과적으로 작용한 것으로 나타났다. 폐 영구자석 스크랩을 접종제로 활용하여 주조 시 인장강도는 306 MPa의 우수한 특성으로 나타났으며, 고가의 희토류원소를 사용하여 접종한 실험의 인장강도와 비슷한 수준의 특성이다. 연구결과를 토대로 고특성의 회주철 제조에 있어서 폐 영구자석 스크랩을 활용한 R.E. 첨가가 효과적인 접종방안임을 확인하였다.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2011

Rare metals, called as vitamins of industry, are defined as the elements which are very few in the earth and are difficult to extract from ores. The requirements for total amounts of rare metals have increased as the global economics grows and the function of electronic components varies considerably. The rare metals have been maldistributed to America, CIS(Commonwealth of Independent States), China, Australia, Canada as about 80% of total natural resources, which also lead to unequal materials flow or distribution. Therefore, it was needed to investigate the feature of rare metals in terms of industry as well as technology. We could identify the industrial issues associated with the supply of critical rare elements in electronic components.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2015

Flat panel display devices are mainly used as information display devices in the 21st century. The worldwide waste flat panel displays are expected at 2-3 million units but most of them are land-filled for want of a proper recycling technology More specifically, rare earth metals of La and Eu are used as fluorescent materials of Cold Cathode Flourscent Lamp(CCFL)s in the waste flat panel displays and they are critically vulnerable and irreplaceable strategic mineral resources. At present, most of the waste CCFLs are disposed of by land-filling and incineration and proper recovery of 80-plus tons per annum of the rare earth fluorescent materials will significantly contribute to steady supply of them. A dearth of Korean domestic research results on recovery and recycling of rare earth elements in the CCFLs prompts to initiate this status report on overseas research trends and noteworthy research results in related fields.

• 한국자기학회:학술대회 개요집
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• 한국자기학회 2013년도 자성 및 자성재료 국제학술대회
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• pp.89-89
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• 2013

Rare earth (RE) - transition metal based high energy density magnets are of immense significance in various engineering applications. $Nd_2Fe_{14}B$ magnets possess the highest energy product and are widely used in whole industries. Simultaneously, composite alloys that are cheap, cost effective and strong commercially available have drawn great attention, because rare-earth metals are costly, less abundant and strategic shortage. We designed rare-earth free alloys and fabrication process and developed novel route to prepare $Nd_2Fe_{14}B$ powders by wet process employing spray drying and reduction-diffusion (R-D) without the use of high purity metals as raw material. MnAl-base permanent magnetic powders are potentially important material for rare-earth free magnets. We have prepared the nano-sized MnAl powders by plasma arc discharge and micron-sized MnAl powders by gas atomization. They showed good magnetic property, compared with that from conventional processes. $Nd_2Fe_{14}B$ powders with high coercivity of more than 10 kOe were successfully synthesized by adjusting R-D step, followed by precise washing system. It is considered that this process can be applied for the recycling of RE-elements extracted from ewaste including motors.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.66-77
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• 2018

우리나라의 희유금속 수입액은 6,034 백만불에 달하나 국내 희유금속 자급률은 1% 수준에 불과하여 효율적인 비축제도의 운영이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 효율적인 비축전략 수립을 위해 비축 대상이 되는 희유금속의 유 무형 위험 요인을 정량화하여 비축 적정성을 평가할 수 있는 체계를 수립하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 모형은 중장기적인 관점에서 기술변화와 시장변화에 맞추어 우선 비축이 요구되는 희유금속을 선별하고 비축정책의 방향성을 제시하는데 그 목적이 있다. 모형을 통해 도출된 평가결과는 위험상태 행렬(criticality matrix)로 표현되어 희유금속의 안보수준을 정량적으로 측정할 수 있으며 상대비교를 가능케 한다. 따라서 향후 정책수립에 있어 본 논문에서 제안한 모형이 활용된다면 보다 효율적인 비축정책 수립이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.