Future polymetallic processing through lead smelting, recycling, refining (2015-2018)
Abstract
The aim of the project is to provide new fundamental data and state of the art thermodynamic modelling tools to be used in the development of the next generation of lead metal smelting, refining and recycling processes, for the recycling of electronic materials, the processing of hazardous wastes and the recovery of valuable metals. The intention is to combine recently developed experimental techniques with the latest advances in FactSage chemical thermodynamic modelling to overcome longstanding experimental and modelling obstacles. The new experimental data and databases is intended to provide important information on high temperature chemistry of complex phase equilibria and on the distribution of minor elements in multiphase systems.
