Sustainable Utilization of Primary and Secondary Raw Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 8355
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mineral processing; recycling; colloid and interface science
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to provide an excellent forum for scientists and engineers to share and discuss their pioneering/original findings or insightful reviews on the sustainable utilization of primary and secondary raw materials. Reports on capturing the whole/wide raw material value chain via geometallurgical or process mineralogical approach are particularly encouraged. On the other hand, any kind of contribution under the broad frame work of sustainable utilization is also welcome.
Some potential contributions are listed below under “Keywords”. One of them is the complex ore/waste beneficiation via the development of a new characterization method and/or process intensification. For example, a proper characterization of complex/heterogeneous materials is still a challenging task, since the majority of characterization methods analyze either the average characteristics of the whole material or a narrow area of specific interest [1,2]. On the other hand, the efficient beneficiation of complex ore/waste strongly supported by their characterization has been in high demand in view of economic and environmental concerns [1].
Dr. Akira Otsuki
Guest Editor
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[1] Otsuki, A.; Chen, Y.; Zhao, Y. Characterisation and beneficiation of complex ores for sustainable use of mineral resources: Refractory gold ore beneficiation as an example. Int. J. Soc. Mat. Eng. Res. 2014, 20, 126–135.
[2] Otsuki, A.; Bryant, G. Characterization of the interactions within fine particle mixtures in highly concentrated suspensions for advanced particle processing. Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. 2015, 226, 37–43.
Keywords
- Geometallurgy/process mineralogy
- Complex ore/waste
- Characterization
- Process intensification
- Environmental/economic evaluation
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