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损失减少一半。该项目将使英国能够打破这一低效的链条，并创建一个本土企业，从而实现自给自足，从估计每年40万吨的电子垃圾中产生。该项目代表了以现有纯金属到产品回收行业为基础的循环经济商业模式中缺失环节的一条途径。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；基于冶炼效率的PM回收和精炼。新颖性既体现在商业上，也体现在综合业务方法上，同时体现在使用铜基回收工艺的技术上，而不是使用铁基工艺从催化剂中高效回收PM。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，使PM回收的价值最大化，具有更高的回收效率和更低的环境影响，与商业从所有权转向基于服务的模式的趋势相辅相成，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.