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Recent Advance in Industrial Waste Materials Recovery

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2024) | Viewed by 2894

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Franco Medici

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environmental, “Sapienza” University of Roma, Roma, Italy
Interests: industrial waste; hazardous material; recovery; circular economy; treatment; industrial plants; process development
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Large quantities of waste materials and by-products are generated from manufacturing processes, service industries and chemical processing industries. As a result, industrial solid waste management has become a major global environmental concern. With increasing awareness about the environment, as well as the scarcity of landfill space and its ever-increasing cost, the use of industrial waste materials and by-products has become an attractive and mandatory alternative to land disposal or inceneration. The high consumption of natural sources, high level of production of industrial wastes and environmental pollution require new solutions for sustainable development.

Low-cost and reduced environmental impact technologies have been studied in this research area in recent years, aimed at the recovery and valorization of industrial waste.

For this reason, it is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue: full papers, communications and reviews are welcome, aiming to propose technological solutions and to consider the recovery of industrial waste materials a null problem in the future of the global community.

Dr. Franco Medici
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • waste materials
  • industrial waste
  • recycling
  • recovery
  • valuable materials
  • technological research
  • chemical operations
  • process engineering
  • case study

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Recovery of Valuable Materials from End-of-Life Photovoltaic Solar Panels
by Dina Magdy Abdo, Ayat Nasr El-Shazly and Franco Medici
Materials 2023, 16(7), 2840; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16072840 - 02 Apr 2023
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Abstract
The disposal of end-of-life (EOL) photovoltaic solar panels has become a relevant environmental issue as they are considered to be a hazardous electronic waste. On the other hand, enormous benefits are achieved from recovering valuable metals and materials from such waste. Eventually, physical [...] Read more.
The disposal of end-of-life (EOL) photovoltaic solar panels has become a relevant environmental issue as they are considered to be a hazardous electronic waste. On the other hand, enormous benefits are achieved from recovering valuable metals and materials from such waste. Eventually, physical and chemical processing will become the most important stages during the recycling process. A physical treatment including crushing, grinding, and screening was achieved, and it was observed that a fine fraction of −0.25 mm had the maximum percentage of the required materials. Moreover, the optimum chemical treatment conditions were adjusted to reach the maximum recovery of silver, aluminum, and silicon. The synthesis of silicon oxide, silver oxide, alunite, and K-Alum from leachant solution was performed through a simple route. The structural and morphological properties of the prepared materials were defined by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). Full article
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