Overview
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the development, use, extraction, and recovery of rare earth metals
- Describes the growing variety of applications of rare earth metals in modern technology
- Examines future challenges regarding increasing demand and rapidly decreasing supply of rare earth metals and presents potential solutions
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the development, use, extraction, and recovery of rare earth metals. Rare earth elements (REEs) occupy a key role in daily life in industrial applications. They are one of the critical elements for energy and sustainable growth. REEs are utilized in many modern electrical and electronic devices such as smart phones, computers, LED lights etc. Recovery of the REEs from secondary resources represents a way to meet the growing demand for electronic devices. Because of their rarity, utility, and importance, the recovery, utilization and recycling of rare earth metals is of utmost importance. This book presents both current methods of processing rare earths from primary and secondary sources and new, green routes for their isolation and purification. The book also addresses their utilization, re-use, reduction, and recycling policies that exist globally. Applications in metallurgy, magnets, ceramics, electronics, and chemical, optical, and nuclear technologies are discussed.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
The editor, Dr. Jyothi Rajesh Kumar is a Principal Researcher at the Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Daejeon, South Korea as well as serving Professor for University of Science & Technology (UST), South Korea in the area of Resources Recycling. He visited several countries such as, Australia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Japan, USA, Canada, Thailand, Germany, Czech Republic, Portugal and Korea as a Invited Researcher as well as to present his research findings in international conferences. He was published ~192 research articles, eview/general articles in peer-reviewed research journals and presented/contributed his research in National or International symposiums. Written two books on liquid-liquid extraction and edited one book on Mineral Processing: Methods, Applications and Technology. Several patents were filled in various countries such as South Korea (9), World (1), European (1) and USA (1).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rare-Earth Metal Recovery for Green Technologies
Book Subtitle: Methods and Applications
Editors: Rajesh Kumar Jyothi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38106-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38105-9Published: 26 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38108-0Published: 26 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38106-6Published: 25 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 166
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Metallic Materials, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Organometallic Chemistry, Environmental Science and Engineering, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes