Metallurgical resource recovery from waste steelmaking slag from electric arc furnace.

Steel slag from an electric arc furnace (EAF) may contain significant amounts of oxides of valuable metals. The recovery of iron and other metals from the EAF slag using smelt-reduction process was studied with coal as the reductant. A pig iron phase with high carbon and a final slag depleted of the valuable metals were generated.

Recovery of metal values from copper slag and reuse of residual secondary slag.

Resource and environmental factors have become major forces in mining and metallurgy sectors driving research for sustainability purposes. The concept of zero-waste processing has been gaining ground readily. The scant availability of high quality raw materials has forced the researchers to shift their focus to recycling while the exceedingly stringent environmental regulations have forced researchers to explore new frontiers of minimizing/eliminating waste generation.

Processing of electronic waste in a counter current teeter-bed separator.

Advanced gravity separation of ground electronic waste (e-waste) in a teeter-bed separator was investigated. It was established that the Floatex Density Seprator (FDS) is a promising device for wet processing of e-waste to recover metal values physically. It was possible to enrich the metal content from 23% in the feed to 37% in the product in a single stage operation using the FDS with over 95% recovery of the metals.