Applicability of empf process for treatment of zinc- and/or lead containing wastes
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In commission of Elkem Technology the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) made an inventory of the zinc and/or lead containing wastes that are produced in EC countries. The main objective of this study was to provide Elkem Technology with information in order to determine the potential market for the Elkem Multi Purpose Furnace® (EMPF®). For the selection of types of industries where zinc and/or lead containing wastes are produced the chains of these wastes have been described. The chains describe the use of the metal from winning, production, use in products, recycling until final disposal as waste. Elkem and TNO agreed upon a selection of 13 types of industries. The selected industries can be clustered as follows: — The primary and secondary production of metals (zinc, lead and iron). — The shaping of the metals (accumulator- and basic metal-industry). — The production/use of metal compounds (zinc oxide- and synthetic fibre industry. — Surface treatment (thermal- and electro-metalplating). — Waste incineration (hazardous- and municipal-waste and tires). The wastes that are produced in these types of industries are described by the way the waste is generated, the chemical composition, in particular the Zn and Pb content, the physical composition, the amounts produced (per country or per company) and both current and future routes of processing of the waste (treatment/disposal routes)
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TNO Identifier
252677
Publisher
TNO
Collation
112 p.
Place of publication
Apeldoorn