Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0776721

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0776721

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Innovative thermodynamic process control - the key to sustainable metal use. Large amounts of electronic goods such as computers and mobile phones are discarded each year in Australia. They contain both valuable and toxic metals so dumping them as landfill is unacceptable. Australia has a smelting method which could be adapted to reprocess this waste to recover the valuable metals, returning them for reuse. It would also safely handle the toxics. This project will determine the appropriate smelting strategies and control methods. As a result, transportation of toxic materials overseas will be eliminated, environmental hazards will be reduced and our sustainable use of metals will be increased.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-03-2007

End Date: 29-04-2011

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $76,881.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Process Metallurgy | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Basic metal products (incl. Smelting) |

Other Keywords

Basic metal products (incl. Smelting) | Process Metallurgy | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy

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