High Efficiency Precious Metals Recovery from E-waste

该项目的目的是缩短供应链，并将贵金属（PM）在从电子废物中回收过程中的总体损失减半。该项目将使英国能够打破这一效率低下的链条，并创建一个本土企业，从而实现自给自足，估计每年产生40万吨电子废物。该项目代表了一条基于现有纯金属到产品回收行业的循环经济商业模式中缺失环节的路线。这将通过合并后的合作伙伴在废物收集和分类、基于冶炼的高效PM回收和精炼方面的专业知识来实现。新奇是商业的，在综合的商业方法，和技术上的使用铜基回收工艺，而不是铁基工艺用于从催化剂的高效PM回收。该计划旨在开发一种可持续的过程，通过开发新的废物处理技术来最大限度地提高PM回收的价值，具有更高的回收效率和更低的环境影响，并与商业趋势相结合，从所有权转向基于服务的模式，并采用生命周期材料管理。

The aim of this project is to both shorten the supply chain and halve the overall losses of precious metals (PM) during their recovery from e-waste. This project will enable the UK to disrupt this inefficient chain and create an indigenous business, leading to self-sufficiency, from an estimated 400k tpa e-waste arising. The project represents a route to achieving the missing links in the circular economy business model based on the existing pure metal to product recycling industry. This will be achieved through the combined partners’ expertise in waste collection and sorting; smelting based efficiency PM recovery and refining. Novelty is both commercial, in the integrated business approach, and technical in the use of a copper-based recovery process, instead of the iron-based process used for high efficiency PM recovery from catalysts. This programme aims to develop a sustainable process for maximising the value of PM recovery by the development of novel waste processing technologies, with higher recovery efficiencies and lower environmental impacts, complimentary to the trend in commerce to move away from ownership to service-based models, with life cycle material management.