Advanced Hydrometallurgy and Recycling/Utilization of Metallic Resources
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1608
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: nickel laterite ore; acid leaching; enhanced oxidation by microbubbles; electrochemical synthesis
Interests: inorganic energy storage material; sodium ion battery; lithium-ion battery; lithium-sulfur battery
2. Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: hydrometallurgy; chemical processes; energy materials; extraction and separation of metal resources; utilization of metallurgical solid waste
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrometallurgical processes play an essential role in the recycling, recovery, and utilization of metallic resources, which include separating, enriching, leaching, and extracting metals from resources like ores, deposits, concentrates, and industrial and mining wastes.
This Special Issue aims to collect the latest contributions regarding emerging and sustainable hydrometallurgy/extractive metallurgy technologies, as well as applications in the extraction, recovery, and reuse of base, noble, and pure metals, rare earth elements, and energy metallic materials in primary and secondary resources.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Hydrometallurgical processes with applications in valuable or critical metal recovery, including copper, chromium, uranium, thorium, gold, silver, zinc, cobalt, nickel, lithium, rare earth, etc.
- Solution concentration and purification, including precipitation, cementation; distillation, adsorption, solvent extraction, ion exchange, electrowinning, etc.
- Environmentally/sustainable leaching, chemical processes, and economic assessment.
Dr. Zhihui Yu
Dr. Xiaoxian Zhao
Prof. Dr. Jingkui Qu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- extractive metallurgy
- hydrometallurgy
- metal recovery and recycling
- green chemistry
- mechanism
- selective separation
- kinetics
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