• Resources Recycling
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.44-51
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• 2009

Fundamental study has been made on the recovery of copper from the electronic scrap by hydrometallurgical process. Nitric acid was used as a leaching agent to dissolve the metals such as Cu, Sn, Pb, Fe etc. from the crushed electronic scraps. TBP was employed to extract nitric acid from the strong nitric acid leaching solutions and to reclaim nitric acid. From the experimental results, Cu was effectively leached by 3.0-4.0 M nitric acid. And 95% of nitric acid in the leaching solution was extracted by 60% TBP, and 98% of nitric acid was stripped from the loaded organic phase by distilled water and it was possible to reuse as a leaching agent.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.29-35
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• 2001

This study was carried out to recover gold, silver and valuable metals from the printed circuit boards (PCBs) of waste computers. PCBs samples were crushed under 1 mm by a shredder and separated into 30% conducting and loft nonconducting materials by an electrostatic separator. The conducting materials contained valuable metals which were then used as feed materials for magnetic separation. 42% of magnetic materials from the conducting materials was removed by magnetic separation as nonvaluable materials and the others, 58% of non magnetic materials, was used as leaching samples containing 0.227 mg/g Au and 0.697 mg/g Ag. Using the materials of leaching from magnetic separation, more than 95% of copper, iron, zinc, nickel and aluminium was dissolved in 2.0M sulfuric acid solution, added with 0.2M hydrogen peroxide at $85^{\circ}C$. Au and Ag were not extracted in this solution. On the other hand, more than 95% of gold and 100% of silver were leached by the selective leaching with a mixed solvent (0.2M($NH_4$)$_2$$S_2$$O_3$,0.02M $CuSO_4$,0.4M $NH_4$OH). Finally, the residues were reacted with a NaCl solution to leach Pb whereas sulfuric acid was used to leach Sn. Recoveries reached 95% and 98% in solution, respectively.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.44-50
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• 2015

Recycling technologies would be required in consideration of increasing demand in lithium ion batteries (LIBs). In this study, the leaching behavior of Ni, Co and Mn is investigated with ammoniacal medium for spent cathode active materials, which are separated from a commercial LIB pack in hybrid electric vehicles. The leaching behavior of each metal is analyzed in the presence of reducing agent and pH buffering agent. The existence of reducing agent is necessary to increase the leaching efficiency of Ni and Co. The leaching of Mn is insignificant even with the existence of reducing agent in contrast to Ni and Co. The most conspicuous difference between acid and ammoniacal leaching would be the selective leaching behavior between Ni/Co and Mn. The ammoniacal leaching can reduce the cost of basic reagent that makes the pH of leachate higher for the precipitation of leached metals in the acid leaching.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2001

쓰레기를 매립한 후 매립장에서 유출되는 침출수는 높은 생물학적 산소요구량(Biological Oxygen Demand: BOD)으로 인해서 지하수 오염과 더불어서 식생에도 부정적인 영향을 줄 수 있다. 더욱이 산업쓰레기에는 중금속이 다량 들어 있어서 침출수의 집적, 유출로 인해서 토양을 오염시켜 생태계를 위협하고 있다(정종관과 장원, 1995).(중략)

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.64-66
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• 1995

쓰레기매립지 침출수는 중금속과 난분해성 유기물질을 고농도로 함유하고 있어 기존의 생물학적 방법은 처리효율이 낮고, 화학적 산화법은 비용이 많이드는 처리하기가 어려운 폐수이다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 처리방법을 막분리공정으로의 대체가능성을 조사하기 위해 김포 수도권매립지의 침출수를 대상으로 Nanofiltration막인 MPF-34, XU-45와 역삼투막인 Desal-CA, LSY-CPA, SW-30, UOP-CA의 분리특성을 평막실험장치를 사용하여 조사하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.266-269
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• 2003

To understand the long-term leach behavior of a borosilicate waste glass in a repository, the leaching experiment with three kinds of simulated borosilicate waste glasses has been carried out since the middle of 1997. The five years results indicate that a boron would be applied as an indicator of a long-term leaching of their borosilicate waste glasses and that their long-term leach rates have a tendency to be close to about $0.03g/m^2-day$ even though their compositions and their ratios of the surface area to the volume of leachate are different.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05b
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• pp.319-323
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• 1997

석탄화력발전소의 부산물인 석탄회를 이용한 DUPIC dirty scrap waste의 유리고화체에 대한 내침출성을 분석하였다. Fly ash, SiO$_2$, NaNO$_3$, B$_2$O$_3$에 DUPIC 핵연료 제조공정으로부터 발생되는 모의 dirty scrap waste를 15 wt% ~ 30 wt% 혼합하여, 115$0^{\circ}C$ 에서 3시간 용융시킨 후 서서히 냉각시켜 얻은 유리고화체의 침출성을 온도, 침출액의 종류, 폐기물의 함량 등에 따라 평가하였다 침출실험결과 석탄회유리고화체는 양호한 내침출성을 보였다. 석탄회유리고화체의 침출율은 합성지하수, 합성해수, 증류수의 순으로 감소하였으며, 폐기물함량의 증가에 따라 증가하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.155-164
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• 1988

A rate equation for UO$_2$ pellet leaching has been derived and compared with some experimental results. The leach rate model comprises the processes of oxygen penetration into UO$_2$ pellets and the dissolution and transport of oxidized UO$_2$ depending on the penetration depth of oxygen. The model may be analyzed with two regions of transient and steady state behaviors, which should depend on the initial oxidation state of pellets. Also this model can be utilized in the analyses of general leach processes if the oxidation reaction of UO$_2$ is replaced with similar mechanism of those processes.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.65-77
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• 2022

A study was conducted in Korea on the leaching behavior and possibility of recovery of vanadium and other valuable metals from domestic vanadium titanomagnetite (VTM) by direct acid leaching. In this study, a VTM concentrate containing 0.8% V₂O₅ was used, and the ratio of magnetite to ilmenite was calculated as 1.9:1 by using the HSC program. The leaching behavior of vanadium from the VTM was similar to that of iron, and it was affected by the concentration of sulfuric acid and temperature. Further, titanium could be leached in the form of TiOSO₄ at a temperature higher than 75℃. To improve the leaching efficiency of V, Fe, and Ti in VTM, reductive sulfuric acid and oxidative sulfuric acid leaching were performed. When Na₂SO₃ was used as a reducing agent, the leaching rate of vanadium was 80% of that in that case of leaching by sulfuric acid. Similarly, the leaching rate of titanium increased from 20% to 50%. When Na₂S₂O₈ was used as an oxidation agent, most of the vanadium was leached, and the main residue found by XRD analysis was ilmenite. In studies on the possibility of recovering valuable metals, the selective extraction of metals is hardly achieved by solvent extraction from oxidation leaching solutions; however, in this study, Cyanex 923, a solvation extractant from reductive leaching solutions, could selectively extract Ti.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.45-54
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• 2010

Field study was conducted for 5 months to investigate the effect of leachate recirculation on aerobic landfill stabilization at active landfilling site. The area of field experiment was $24{\times}24m$ and 9 vertical air injection wells with screen ranging 3~9 m were installed. Aerobic landfill operation for 5 months increased average internal landfill temperature to $70^{\circ}C$ and 8 % of landfill height was settled down. $94m^3$ of leachate was recirculated for 1 month to increase moisture content of landfill to favor microbial degradation of organic matter, which resulted in temporary increase of groundwater level and anaerobic environment. But leachate recirculation triggered increase of internal landfill temperature of neighboring monitoring well. Because excessive leachate recirculation decreased internal landfill temperature by cooling effect, internal landfill temperature should be checked to avoid abrupt decrease of temperature during leachate recirculation. Also, to prevent anaerobic environment, intermittent leachate recirculation was recommended.