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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Recovery of Noble Metals

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 637-0815/01
Abbreviation RUK
Course title Recovery of Noble Metals
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Non-ferrous Metals, Refining and Recycling
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Miroslav Kursa, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Noble metals, theirs properties and present state of need noble metals
2. Choice secondary material with content of noble metals
3. Elektronic scrap, material characteristic of electronic scrap, content and problems of scrap collecting
4. Physico-chemical base of cyanide process
5. Waste fixing solution, chemical content and problems of collecting
6. Scrap of car catalyst, their material characteristic, types of car catalyst, funktion noble metals in car catalyst
7. Mechanical, pyrometalurgical and hydrometalurgical processes of treatment of car catalyst
8. Recovery noble metals from electronic srap
9. Recovery Ag from waste fixing solutions, chemical precipitation, sorptive processes, electrolysis
10. Recovery Pt, Pd a Rh from car catalyst, pyrometalurgical, hydrometalurgical and combination recycling processes
11. Recovery noble metals on classical pyrometalurgical production of Pb
12. Recovery noble metals on classical pyrometalurgical production of Cu
13. Dissolving Au a Ag in innovative solvent, efect of oxidizer
14. Economic aspect recycling of noble metalls from wastes material

Literature

[1] RAMACHANDRA RAO, S. R. Resource Recovery and Recycling from Metallurgical Wastes. Elsevier, London, 2006. ISBN 978-0-08-045131-2.
[2] FARRELL,F. The impact of best available techniques (BAT) on the competitiveness of the European non-ferrous metals industry. Seville 2001.
[3] Waste Treatment and Clean Technology REWAS 99, TMS, USA 1999.

Advised literature

[1] ASHBY, M. F. Materials and the Environment: Eco-Informed Material Choice. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Waltham, 2013, 616 s. ISBN 978-0-12-385971-6.