• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.674-680
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• 2023

The brine and seawater are important and largely untapped sources of critical trace metals and elements. The coupling of selective recovery of trace metals from seawater/brine with desalination plants gives an added advantage of energy credits to desalination plants and as well as reduce the cost of desalinated water. In this paper, status review on recovery of important trace metals and other alkali metals from seawater is presented. The potential of Indian desalination plants for recovery of trace metals, based on recovery ratio of 0.35 is also highlighted. Studies carried out by the process based on adsorption using Radiation Induced Grafted (RIG) polymeric adsorbents and then fractional elutions are presented. The fouling factors due to bio fouling and dirt fouling have been estimated for various locations of interest through field trails. The pay loader in the form of compact Contactor Assembly with minimum pressure drop, for loading specially designed radiation grafted sorbent in leaflet form has been briefed, as required for plant scale facility. The typical conceptual process design details of farm assembly of project CRUDE are described.

• Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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• 제10권S_3호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2001

Heavy metals such as Cu, Ni, Cd, and Pb were chemically extract from the contaminated soils using the chelating agents, EDTA and DTPA. These chemical extraction have been focused on its applicability to a wide range of soils. Results of extractive efficiency for heavy metal follow the order : Cu-EDTA $\geq$ Ni-EDTA > Pb-EDTA > Cd-EDTA > Cu-DTPA> Pb-DTPA. This result is coincided with order of conditional formation constants(Kr) of metal-chelate agent. The second study involved the recovery of the metals and EDTA from complex solutions by an electromembrane process. The overall processes of regeneration, recovery, and reuse were evaluated. The electrochemical studies showed that copper could be chosen as an electrode to plate Cd, Cu, and Pb. At least 95% of 75 of EDTA and associated Cu or Pb could be recovered by the electromembrane process. Recovery of Cd by electodeposition was not possible with the copper electrode. The percent EDTA recovery is equal to the percentage of metal electroplated from the chelates.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.477-485
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• 2016

As expensive and valuable metals being used in electronic and semiconducting industries are abandoned as industrial wastes after use of them, it is required to recover them from e-wasted electronics parts. Gold which is used for printed circuit boards or electronic equipments, accessories, etc., is one of e-Wasted materials and recently indium, gallium, zirconium, cobalt, molybdenum and lithium are bacome valuable metals to be recovered from the e-wastes. Since the amount of precious metals is now being faced with scarcity, lean too much on area and instability of supply, and industrial demands are rapidly increasing every year, it becomes more important to recover the valuable metals from the industrial wastes. In this review, we introduced technologies and research trend of the recovery processes of valuable metals from the e-wastes in high-tech devices over the world.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2015

The main objective of this study is to recovery valuable metals with metal particle size distributions in waste cell phone PCBs(Printed Circuit Boards) by means of pulverization and nitric acid process. The particle size classifier also was evaluated by specific metal contents. The PCBs were pulverized by a fine pulverizer. The particle sizes were classified by 5 different sizes which were PcS1(0.2 mm below), PcS2(0.20~0.51 mm), PcS3(0.51~1.09 mm), PcS4(1.09~2.00 mm) and PcS5(2.00 mm above). Non-magnetic metals in the grinding particles were separated by a hand magnetic. And then, Cu, Co and Ni were separated by 3M nitric acid. Particle diameter of PCBs were 0.388~0.402 mm after the fine pulverizer. The sorting coefficient were 0.403~0.481. The highest metal content in PcS1. And the bigger particle diameter, the lower the valuable metals exist. The recovery rate of the valuable metals increases in smaller particle diameter with same leaching conditions. For further work, it could improve to recovery of the valuable metals effectively by means of individual treatment, multistage leaching and different leaching solvents.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2020

우리나라는 제조업 중심 국가로서 다양한 분야에 많은 양의 금속이 사용되나, 이들 금속이 대부분 수입에 의존하고 있다. 상당수의 금속은 전세계적으로 제한된 부존량 및 생산량에 비해 소비량이 증가하는 실정이다. 어떤 금속들은 부존 및 생산국가가 편재되어 있는 경우가 종종 있어 향후 공급의 불안정성이 우려된다. 또한 이러한 금속이 유해성을 띄고 있을 경우 환경적 측면에서도 문제가 된다. 이를 해결하기 위해 사업장 폐기물내 유해성 유가금속 회수 및 재활용을 통해 공급을 안정화시키고 환경오염을 예방할 수 있으나, 유가 금속의 종류 및 국내 배출업체와 배출폐기물 종류가 매우 많아 초기에 관련 현황파악이 번거롭다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 공공기관 공개자료를 통해 향후 국내산업에 중요한 유해성 유가금속 선정결과를 소개하고, 국내 화학물질 배출·이동량 정보 등을 이용하여 이러한 금속(니켈, 코발트, 망간 등)를 함유 폐기물을 배출하는 업체들을 보다 용이하게 초기 현황파악 하는 방안을 순서도 형식으로 제시하였다.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.3-11
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• 2002

최근 전자산업의 발달로 인하여 폐 인쇄회로기판(PCB) 발생량이 증대되고 있으며 이는 유해물질 및 유가금속을 함유하고 있어 환경오염의 방지 측면 및 유용자원의 회수 측면에 있어서 재활용이 시급하다. 또한, 자동차의 배출가스 내의 대기오염 물질의 저감을 위하여 장착된 자동차 촉매에 백금족 금속이 함유되어 있어 폐기되는 자동차 촉매에서의 유가금속 회수 또한 필요하다. 이러한 유가금속을 회수하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 건식방법의 일종으로 고온처리에 의하여 발생하는 유해물질이 적으며 공정이 매우 안정적이라고 알려진 아크 전기로를 이용한 회수 방안을 고찰하였다. 생석회, 전로슬래그, 동슬래그를 사용하여 용제의 종류에 따른 유가 금속의 회수율을 관찰하였으며 직류 및 교류에 의한 영향 그리고 전류의 방향에 따른 유가 금속의 회수율을 살펴보았다. 용제의 종류에 따른 회수율에 있어서 전로슬래그나 동슬래그를 용제로 사용하는 것이 생석회에 비해 용융회수에 더 유리함을 파악하였다. 폐 PCB에 존재하는 유가 금속의 회수에 있어서 직류 및 교류의 영향에 대한 결과는 전체적으로 직류 기저 消 경우가 높은 회수율을 나타내었으며 이는 자동차 폐촉매의 경우에도 같은 양상이 관찰되었다. 폐기되는 PCB 및 자동차 촉매에서의 유가 금속 회수에 관한 본 연구에서 아크로처리에 의한 유가금속의 회수율은 평균적으로 95～97%정도로 상당히 높은 것으로 관찰되었다.

• 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.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.147-170
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• 2014

This paper focuses on the study of the most recent ultra-filtration techniques, based on porous polymer membranes, used for the treatment of wastewater from oil, mine and hydrometallurgical industries. The performance of porous membranes used in separation and recovery of oil and heavy metals from wastewater, was evaluated by the polymer composition and by the membrane characteristics, as it follows: hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity, porosity, carrier (composition and concentration), selectivity, fouling, durability, separation efficiency and operating conditions. The oil/water efficient separation was observed on ultra-filtration (UF) techniques, with porous membranes, whereas heavy metals recovery from wastewater was observed using porous membranes with carrier. It can be concluded, that in the ultra-filtration wastewater treatments, a hybrid system, with porous polymer membranes with or without carrier, can be used for these two applications: oil/water separation and heavy metals recovery.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.21-25
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• 2019

The utilization of incineration ash from municipal waste must be promoted to solve the social problem on the shortage of final disposal site. In this research, metals should be recovered to avoid the damage of the crushing machine during the utilization of incineration ash in cement industry. In fact, incineration bottom ash from municipal waste contains iron in 3-5%. Nonferrous metal and stainless steel in 1% is also included. The research and development on the physical recovery process was performed not only to remove the metals but also to recover high grade products. Metals were separated from incineration ash in Maruya Co. Ltd.. In fact, iron scrap recovered by magnetic separation can be selled. After that, mixed metal was separated from incineration ash using screen. In this research, mixed metal tried to divided copper, aluminum, brass and stainless steel using drum type magnetic separation, eddy current separation and high magnetic separation. As a result, recovered iron had an 80% for the grade. Aluminum was recovered by eddy current separation without copper and brass.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.3-19
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• 2003

Prior to discuss on recycling status and future prospects for the non-ferrous metals in the Korea, Japan and U.S.A. respectively, worldwide resources of non-ferrous metals and characteristics with recycling of non-ferrous metals are reviewed. In case of recovery non-ferrous metals, recycling of automobile shredder dust and E.A.F. dust are illustrated. Finally, the problems and technological developments associated with recycling of non-ferrous metals are summarized.