Conversion of productive agricultural land towards growth of energy crops has become increasingly controversial. Closed landfill sites represent significant areas of brownfield land, which have potential for the establishment of energy crops. Increasingly composts are now being produced from the degradable fraction of mixed municipal solid waste (MSW) and are commonly referred to as Compost-Lik...

Rigid-wall column tests are performed at a hydraulic gradient of 100 on 21 compacted mixture contai.ning a Class F fly ash, sand, benton.ite, and cement. Results indicate that combina1ions of the admixtures can lower the permeability of the fly ash by up to an order of magnitude. There appears to be an optimum percentage of fly ash that minimizes the permeability of fly ashsand mixtures. Specim...

Indium is a critical element mainly produced as a by-product of zinc mining, and it is largely used in the production process of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels. End-of-life LCDs represent a possible source of indium in the field of urban mining. In the present paper, we apply, for the first time, cross-current leaching to mobilize indium from end-of-life LCD panels. We carried out a series...

Germanium-containing residues (GCR) are a secondary resource rich in zinc (Zn) and germanium (Ge) produced the Zn pyrometallurgical process an important raw material for recovering Ge. To recycle residue by hydrometallurgy, sulfuric acid is used to leach under normal pressure. In this study, experimental conditions (leaching temperature, leaching time, liquid/solid (L/S) mass ratio initial acid...

The pyrolysis residue (SP) of sewage sludge (SS) produced at 500 degrees C was subjected to batch and column leaching tests to investigate the release of its organic and inorganic constituents and metals. For comparison, incineration ash (SI) obtained from a SS incinerator was also tested. Pyrolysis and incineration reduced organic matter of SS from 0.78 kg kg(-1)-dry SS to 0.16 and 0.01 kg kg(...

A research using ferronickel slag, the by-product of production, as raw material for magnesium extraction was carried out. It is essential to upgrade value slag instead used directly reclamation materials. Moreover, accumulation due increasing demand well environmental contamination various potentially toxic elements contained in could be prevented. The general objective this study utilize spec...

The recycling of platinum-group metals from wastes such as autocatalytic converters is getting growing attention due to the scarcity of these precious metals and the market pressure originated by increase of demand in current and emerging applications. Hydrometallurgical treatment of such wastes is an alternative way to the most usual pyrometallurgical processes based on smelter operations. Thi...