A new treatment method for waste products generated in the aluminum smelting industry has been developed at Portland Aluminium, based in Victoria, Australia. The waste, spent pot lining has been the ...

An Australian research team has solved one of the world's big industrial waste headaches - what to do with spent pot lining (SPL) from aluminium smelters. In a major advance for sustainable mineral ...

BHUBANESWAR: A new technology developed by India’s leading aluminium producer Vedanta Aluminium and Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), Bhubaneswar to recover high-purity graphite ...

Used in everything from soda cans and foil wrap to circuit boards and rocket boosters, aluminum is the second-most-produced metal in the world after steel. By the end of this decade, demand is ...

The researchers demonstrated the membrane’s performance in lab-scale experiments, pictured, using a novel membrane to filter various solutions that were similar in content to the waste streams ...

The metals that form the foundation of modern society also cause a number of problems. Separating the metals we want from other minerals is often energy-intensive and can leave behind large volumes of ...

An international group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a nanofiltration method that could decrease hazardous waste and increase the efficiency of aluminum ...

Recycled aluminum is less energy-intensive, produces fewer emissions and should be maximized especially in the near term. Yet leaning solely on secondary aluminum risks ignoring the long-term reality ...