Recent Advances in Metal Separations and Recovery
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Separations".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023) | Viewed by 2756
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metals and metalloids are ubiquitous, while the environmental contents of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) have increased from anthropogenic activities. Analytical techniques are designed to analyze PTEs in environmental matrices precisely. However, a clean-up/separation step is often recommended before the analytical determination of PTEs in effluent or industrial wastewaters, considering the heterogeneous distribution of the analytes or complex nature of the environmental matrices.
Metal separation and recovery are also gaining increased research attention to handle the electronic wastes (e-waste) that have become the foremost solid waste stream in recent years. The comparatively short life spans of electronic gadgets plus concerns for energy sovereignty and climate change create a rapid increase in the demand for tech metals and rare earth elements, even though the supply chain curb is often stuck in global politics. Therefore, the race is on to devise techniques for re-procuring the technology metals from e-waste, commonly termed ‘urban mining.’
In the current Special Issue, we welcome contributions from researchers dealing with developing separation and recovery approaches from analytical or waste management perspectives.
Dr. Ismail Md. Mofizur Rahman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal separations
- metal recovery
- metal removal
- waste processing
- analytical applications
- wastewater treatment
- 3R (reduce, reuse & recycle)
- technology metals
- precious metals
- rare earth elements
- rare metals
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