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The metrics of material and metal ecology : harmonizing the resource, technology and environmental cycles /

This book is a must for individuals and companies that have an interest in developing sustainable technology and systems in the complex 'Web of Metals' on a first principles, technological and economic basis, with a focus to the minerals, metals and product manufacturing industries. In thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Reuter, M. A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, 2005.
Series:Developments in mineral processing ; 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • Harmonizing the resource, technology and environmental cycles
  • II. Metal and material ecology
  • Sustainability and industrial ecology
  • A description of the metal cycles
  • A prescription for the metal cycles
  • Electronics recycling: Lead free solder
  • Web of metals model discussed
  • III. Product recycling as applied to the car
  • The dynamic and distributed nature of the recycling rate of the car--a fundamental description of recycling systems
  • Dynamic modelling and optimization of the resource cycle of passenger vehicles
  • a technological framework
  • The role of particle size reduction, liberation and product design in recycling passenger vehicles
  • Recycling experiments--from theory to practice
  • IV. Aluminium metallurgy and recycling
  • Raw materials for aluminium production
  • Pre-treatment of aluminium containing material
  • Aluminium metal production
  • Simulating a rotary furnace for aluminium recycling
  • Appendix A: Fundamentals of physical separation and metallurgical recycling
  • Appendix B: Description of metal production flowcharts
  • Appendix C: Car recycling
  • a numerical study
  • Appendix D: Simulink model for metal web.