Comprehensive Utilization of Metallurgical Resources and Environmental Protection (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 130
Special Issue Editor
Interests: comprehensive utilization of metallurgical wastes；CO2 capture and utilization
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Dear Colleagues,
The common challenges that humanity faces are resource, energy, and environmental issues. Consequently, there is a growing worldwide consensus on sustainable development. The production processes of the metallurgical industry will consume a large amount of energy and resources, generate a large number of by-products or wastes (such as slag, dust, sludge, flue gas, wastewater, etc.), and discharge a lot of CO2 and environmental pollutants (such as SOx, NOx, dioxins, and heavy metal elements). It is critical for the long-term development of the metallurgical industry to make efficient and comprehensive use of valuable components in by-products while reducing pollutant emissions.
In recent years, researchers have conducted extensive research on the above issues, process technologies on energy conservation and emission reduction have been effectively applied, and the related secondary development products have been successfully used in the environmental protection industry, construction industry, agriculture, and ceramic industry.
This Special Issue focuses on the safe disposal and utilization of metallurgical industry by-products, as well as the treatment of and reduction in pollutant emissions and energy conservation. Submissions are encouraged for articles that focus on advanced ideas, theories, and technical methods in the aforementioned fields, with the goal of contributing to energy conservation and emission reduction in the metallurgical industry.
Prof. Dr. Guojun Ma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metallurgical slag
- dust
- sludge
- flue gas
- waste heat recovery
- wastewater treatment
- CO2 capture and utilization
- heavy metals
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