High Efficiency Precious Metals Recovery from E-waste

从电子废物中高效回收贵金属

• 批准号: 101899
• 金额: $ 70.03万
• 依托单位: TETRONICS (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=101899
• 关键词: Efficiency; Precious; Metals; Recovery; waste

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.

该项目的目标是缩短供应链并将贵金属 (PM) 在电子垃圾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低效的链条，并创建本土企业，从而实现自给自足，解决每年产生的约 40 万吨电子垃圾的问题。该项目代表了一条基于现有纯金属到产品回收行业实现循环经济商业模式中缺失环节的途径。这将通过合作伙伴在废物收集和分类方面的专业知识来实现​​；基于冶炼的高效PM回收和精炼。新颖性既体现在商业上（综合业务方法），也体现在技术上——使用铜基回收工艺，而不是用于从催化剂中高效回收颗粒物的铁基工艺。该计划旨在开发一种可持续的流程，通过开发新型废物处理技术来最大化颗粒物回收的价值，提高回收效率并降低环境影响，顺应商业趋势，从所有权转向基于服务的模式，并进行生命周期材料管理。