Hong Hocheng is the chair professor at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He is an ASME and AMME fellow. His fields of interest are innovative manufacturing processes, nontraditional machining, and micro-/nanomanufacturing.

Mital Chakankar is a senior scientist in the biotechnology department of Germany's Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, and its Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf laboratory. She received her PhD in microbiology from India's Shivaji University in 2011. Her fields of interest are (Bio)hydrometallurgy, circular economy, critical raw materials processing, and bioflotation.

Umesh Jadhav received his PhD in environmental biotechnology from Shivaji University, India, in 2009. Presently, he is a faculty member in the Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.

Swati Gurme received her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Shivaji University, India. She is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

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This book covers biohydrometallurgy and its application in the recovery of metals from secondary sources like waste. Fully updated for a new edition, it provides readers with a comprehensive overview of different wastes for metal recovery and biological treatment methods that are environmentally friendly and economically viable.

Contenu

Front Matter. 1. Introduction. 2. Generation and Composition of Various Metal-Containing Industrial Wastes. 3. Conventional Metal Recycling Techniques. 4. Recycling of Electronic Waste. 5. Recycling of Energy Storage Wastes. 6. Recycling of Metal Production Wastes. 7. Emerging Recycling of Solar Electricity Waste. 8. Recycling of Thermal Power Generation Wastes. 9. Techniques for Metal Extraction from Bioleachate.