Course: E-Waste and Battery Recycling: Technology, Design, and Challenges

This is an interview of Christian Thomas (CEO of Terra Nova Development recycling) who discusses his own experience on metallurgy and recycling.

This video is an interview with Serge Kimbel, CEO of the recycling company WEEECycling group. Watch Serge explain what it was like when he started the company, how they’ve grown, …

Molten Pb (lead) and Cu (copper) are probably the two most important liquids in pyrometallurgy of recycling because they allow to recover many precious elements.

Pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes are commonly used to extract base metals and precious metals. The use of microorganisms and their metabolites through bio-hydrometallurgical processing, or bioleaching, has also been investigated …

This is another example of handling small electrical appliances at PAPREC with manual treatment, shredding and automatic sorting.

Maxime Balva (PhD, researcher at TND) details the solution chemistry of precious metals and methods to recover them.

Pär Håkansson from Stena Recycling discusses the challenges of WEEE collection, dismantling, and recycling.

This article presents the principle of metallic precipitation and conditions under which precipitation can occur: oversaturation, addition of reagents to form an insoluble salt, addition of reagents to form an …

Kateryna Omelchuk, Research Engineer at Eramet, explains the compromises (cost, time, steps) to optimize the recovery and purification of metals.

We will compare the energy to remelt 1 kg of aluminium from the battery casings of smartphones during recycling to that of extracting 1 kg of aluminium from aluminium oxide …

A series of mechanical processes are carried out during the Crushing and Sorting stages of Li-ion battery recycling. They involve crushing, sieving, magnetic separation, fine crushing, and classification. Multistage crushing …

Hydrometallurgical processing of Li-ion batteries is based on the leaching of active material (cathode and anodes – black mass) with preferable mineral acids, followed by metal separation using solvent extraction, …

This article deals with the risks of lithium-ion batteries, especially regarding fire and electrical issues. It is worth noticing that those risks are not always observed during waste management. The …