| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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REWAS 2022: Poster Session
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| Presentation Title |
KIGAM Technology for the Recovery of NdFeB Waste Magnet and Manufacturing Scraps |
| Author(s) |
Kyeong Woo Chung, Ho-sung Yoon, Chul-joo Kim, Rina Kim, Byunchul Lim |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Rina Kim |
| Abstract Scope |
At KIGAM, the pilot plants have been developed and demonstrated two processes for recycling NdFeB waste magnets and manufacturing scraps. The former process uses thermal oxidation as a pretreatment before. The latter does caustic digestion and the thermal oxidation process. About 35% of the iron in feed was co-leached with REEs upon leaching of thermally oxidized products. Therefore, the separation process of REEs and non-REEs was carried out using the double-salt precipitation method to produce a high purity REEs solution applicable for solvent extraction. Instead, the leaching yield of iron upon leaching of caustic digestion and thermal oxidation products showed a value of 0.01%. Thus the high purity REEs solution was obtained and directly applied to solvent extraction. Finally, REEs-compounds of 99.9% or above could be obtained by solvent extraction using mixer settler and precipitation from raffinate and stripping solutions. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Recycling and Secondary Recovery, |