Chapter 8

Lead Recycling

Bart Blanpain1, Sander Arnout2, Mathias Chintinne3,  and Douglas R. Swinbourne4     1High Temperature Processes and Industrial Ecology, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium     2InsPyro, Leuven, Belgium     3Metallo-Chimique, Beerse, Belgium     4School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Abstract

Lead is a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena (PbS) and found in ores together with zinc, silver and copper (ILA, 2013a).

Keywords

Desulfurization; Lead acid battery; Lead recycling; Refining

8.1. Introduction

Lead is a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly ...

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