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Analysis for Optimum Conditions for Recovery of Valuable Metals from E-waste Through Black Copper Smelting

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8th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing

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Abstract

Declining grade of primary ores and resource efficiency have led us to process more alternative metal resources such as e-waste. One of the processing routes for extracting valuable metals from e-waste is through the black copper smelting. However, the underlying knowledge of the thermodynamics behaviour of the valuable metals contained in e-waste during smelting are limited which prevent us from developing an optimised process to recover all the metals. These different metals clearly will have different favourable conditions for their extraction. To illustrate this, the distribution behaviour of germanium (Ge) and palladium (Pd) between liquid copper and ferrous-calcium-silicate slag during black copper smelting was analysed. It was demonstrated that oxygen partial pressure and slag composition affect the partitioning of these metals to the copper phase and the favourable slag chemistry for recovering these metals is opposing. Considering the available thermodynamic data of these metals, an analysis for the optimum conditions is presented.

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Acknowledgements

The study is supported by the Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Award (SUPRA) and the Wealth from Waste Research Cluster, a collaborative program between the Australian CSIRO, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Monash University, University of Queensland, and Yale University.

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  1. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    M. A. H. Shuva, M. A. Rhamdhani, G. A. Brooks, S. Masood & M. Firdaus

  2. Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Freiberg, Germany

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  1. Michigan Technological University , Houghton, Michigan, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang

  2. Central South University , Changsha, Hunan, China

    Tao Jiang

  3. Proval Partners SA , Lausanne, Switzerland

    Mark William Kennedy

  4. Istanbul Technical University , Istanbul, Turkey

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  5. Dept of Materials Science and Eng, Carnegie Mellon Univ Dept of Materials Science and Eng, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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  6. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  7. The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Australia

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  8. RHI AG , Leoben, Austria

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Shuva, M.A.H., Rhamdhani, M.A., Brooks, G.A., Masood, S., Reuter, M.A., Firdaus, M. (2017). Analysis for Optimum Conditions for Recovery of Valuable Metals from E-waste Through Black Copper Smelting. In: Hwang, JY., et al. 8th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51340-9_41

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