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RECOVERY OF GERMANIUM FROM COPPER SLAG USING SILICOTHERMIC PROCESS
(STEF92 Technology, 2024-12-15, Precious Maubane, Michel Kalenga WA KALENGA)
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The depletion of primary raw materials and the demand in High Tech has played a big role in finding new ways of getting raw materials including recycling. Germanium being a semi-conductor currently in high demand is being sourced from secondary materials. The purpose of this project was to recover Germanium from copper slag in the presence of pure silicon using the carbothermic reduction process. The experiment was designed using Minitab software with Taguchi as the tool for statistical analysis and to design the ...
Recycling2024
