Recovery of precious metals from industrial wastewater towards resource recovery and environmental sustainability: A critical review

AT Nakhjiri, H Sanaeepur, AE Amooghin, MMA Shirazi - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the recovery processes of precious metals (PMs) from industrial wastewater
streams have found significant attractions among various investigators worldwide. PMs are …

A comparative state-of-technology review and future directions for rare earth element separation

EO Opare, E Struhs, A Mirkouei - Renewable and Sustainable energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Growing consumption of rare earth elements (REEs) due to their critical roles in various
sectors (eg, healthcare, energy, transportation, and electronics) has gained attention and …

Bacterial bioremediation of heavy metals in wastewater: a review of processes and applications

PR Sreedevi, K Suresh, G Jiang - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metals, a treasure of nature, turns to be toxic at high concentrations in water. Among
several methods adopted to alleviate heavy metal pollution, bioremediation is considered to …

Lithium bioleaching: An emerging approach for the recovery of Li from spent lithium ion batteries

P Moazzam, Y Boroumand, P Rabiei… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapidly growing demand for lithium has resulted in a sharp increase in its price. This is
due to the ubiquitous use of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in large-scale energy and …

Electronic waste generation, regulation and metal recovery: a review

R Nithya, C Sivasankari… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
Waste will become the major resource in the future circular economy. In particular, E-waste
is a major sector growing at an annual rate of about 2 million tonnes (Mt) with rising users of …

Advances in bioleaching as a sustainable method for metal recovery from e-waste: a review

M Baniasadi, F Vakilchap, N Bahaloo-Horeh… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Electronic waste (e-waste) accumulation on earth is a serious environmental challenge. The
need for heavy metal recovery, together with the profitability of precious and base metals …

Sustainable approach for valorization of solid wastes as a secondary resource through urban mining

M Tejaswini, P Pathak, DK Gupta - Journal of environmental management, 2022 - Elsevier
The incessant population has increased the production and consumption of plastics, paper,
metals, and organic materials, which are discarded as solid waste after their end of life. The …

Enhanced recovery of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries through optimization of organic acids produced by Aspergillus niger

N Bahaloo-Horeh, SM Mousavi - Waste management, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present study, spent medium bioleaching method was performed using organic acids
produced by Aspergillus niger to dissolve Ni, Co, Mn, Li, Cu and Al from spent lithium-ion …

Use of adapted metal tolerant Aspergillus niger to enhance bioleaching efficiency of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion mobile phone batteries

N Bahaloo-Horeh, SM Mousavi, M Baniasadi - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spent lithium-ion batteries have caused global concern owing to their rich resource metal
content and high potential for polluting the environment. In the present study, a green …

Advances in bioleaching for recovery of metals and bioremediation of fuel ash and sewage sludge

T Gu, SO Rastegar, SM Mousavi, M Li, M Zhou - Bioresource Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Bioleaching has been successfully used in commercial metal mining for decades. It uses
microbes to biosolubilize metal-containing inorganic compounds such as metal oxides and …