Multiple technologies allow full recovery of heavy-metal wastes

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1993 · Hazmat World; (United States)

OSTI ID:5582310

Various technologies are available to reclaim valuable, non-renewable metal resources from industrial wastes. Horsehead Resource Development Co. Inc. (HRD; Palmerton, PA.) employs several of these to recover such useful metals as zinc, lead and cadmium. Sources include a variety of wastestreams -- including electric-arc furnace (EAF) steel dusts, foundry dusts and sludges, wastewater treatment sludges, and electroplating wastes. The company processes between 350,000 and 400,000 tons of zinc-bearing wastes annually at six US processing plants, recovering and recycling about 75,000 tons of zinc, and 10,000 tons of lead and cadmium for industrial uses.

• OSTI ID: 5582310
• Journal Information: Hazmat World; (United States), Journal Name: Hazmat World; (United States) Vol. 6:2; ISSN HMWOED; ISSN 0898-5685
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320305* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Industrial Waste Management
CADMIUM
ELEMENTS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
LEAD
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS RECOVERY
METALS
PROCESSING
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES
ZINC