Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society

This Special Issue presents recent advances in beneficiation and extractive metallurgical technologies aimed at enabling a carbon-neutral and circular supply of critical metals. It brings together nine contributions addressing the recovery of key materials—including Li, Au, Cu, Ni, Co, and rare-eart...

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description This Special Issue presents recent advances in beneficiation and extractive metallurgical technologies aimed at enabling a carbon-neutral and circular supply of critical metals. It brings together nine contributions addressing the recovery of key materials—including Li, Au, Cu, Ni, Co, and rare-earth elements—from both primary ores and secondary resources such as slags, industrial wastes, and biomass. The collected studies cover a wide range of physical, hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical, and bio-based processes, highlighting environmentally benign and low-energy approaches. Several contributions focus on alternative lixiviants, selective recovery strategies, and process intensification techniques to improve metal recovery efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Others explore the valorization of non-traditional resources and provide fundamental insights into metal behavior relevant to sustainable extraction. Together, these papers offer a comprehensive overview of current challenges, technological progress, and future directions in sustainable metallurgy for critical metal production.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1754242026-04-16T20:49:56Z Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society Park, Ilhwan Jeon, Sanghee Critical metals Beneficiation Extractive metallurgy Ore processing Waste valorization thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology This Special Issue presents recent advances in beneficiation and extractive metallurgical technologies aimed at enabling a carbon-neutral and circular supply of critical metals. It brings together nine contributions addressing the recovery of key materials—including Li, Au, Cu, Ni, Co, and rare-earth elements—from both primary ores and secondary resources such as slags, industrial wastes, and biomass. The collected studies cover a wide range of physical, hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical, and bio-based processes, highlighting environmentally benign and low-energy approaches. Several contributions focus on alternative lixiviants, selective recovery strategies, and process intensification techniques to improve metal recovery efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Others explore the valorization of non-traditional resources and provide fundamental insights into metal behavior relevant to sustainable extraction. Together, these papers offer a comprehensive overview of current challenges, technological progress, and future directions in sustainable metallurgy for critical metal production. 2026-04-16T20:49:48Z 2026-04-16T20:49:48Z 2026 book ONIX_20260416T142754_9783725866922_29 9783725866922 9783725866939 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175424 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/ https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/12342 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6693-9 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6693-9 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725866922 9783725866939 164 CH open access
spellingShingle Critical metals
Beneficiation
Extractive metallurgy
Ore processing
Waste valorization
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society
title Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society
title_full Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society
title_fullStr Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society
title_full_unstemmed Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society
title_short Toward Achieving a Carbon-Neutral Society
title_sort toward achieving a carbon neutral society
topic Critical metals
Beneficiation
Extractive metallurgy
Ore processing
Waste valorization
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
topic_facet Critical metals
Beneficiation
Extractive metallurgy
Ore processing
Waste valorization
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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