Skule Lunch & Learn: Supercritical Fluid Extraction for Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Secondary Resources

There is a significant global push towards recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) to enable the circular economy. Conventional recycling processes rely on pyrometallurgy or hydrometallurgy. These techniques not only are reagent intensive and often require large consumption of strong acids and organic solvents, but they also produce secondary streams of potentially hazardous wastes.

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