Sustainable Secondary Aluminum Production and Recycling

Jafari, Navid

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Title

Sustainable Secondary Aluminum Production and Recycling

Author(s)

Jafari, Navid

Issue Date

2012-12-11

Keyword(s)

• aluminum
• consumer markets
• electronics recycling
• renewable energy

Abstract

Navid Jafari - Doctoral Candidate, NSF Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Aluminum is a widely used nonferrous metal in the world, being present in markets such as transportation, packaging, food, construction, electricity, and medicine. Recycling aluminum scrap is important because the energy required for aluminum recycling is only about 5% of that required by primary aluminum production yet it yields the same quality of aluminum as primary smelting. However, the wastes produced from secondary aluminum production can be problematic when they contain aluminum fines. Metallic aluminum fines can rapidly oxidize to produce heat and hydrogen gas. This presentation described sustainable practices to capture aluminum energy from waste reactions.

Series/Report Name or Number

Sustainable Seminar Series

Type of Resource

• text
• still image

Language

en

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• https://youtu.be/mDXCQs5p4OQ
• http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106751

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