Recycling

Biography

Biography: Brajendra Mishra

Abstract

Metals and materials production from primary sources, such as ore, are highly energy intensive, expensive and environmentally unfriendly. Materials are non-renewable and, therefore, their supply is limited. Post-consumer as well as manufacturing wastes are valuable secondary resources. Most structural and functional materials used today, can be reprocessed and put back into service at a much lower cost and energy consumption through conscious recycling and recovery programs. Most production wastes, such as mineral processing tailings, mechanical processing swarfs and solid pyrometallurgical processing effluents, as well as, post-consumer wastes from the aerospace, automotive, energy-storage and electronic industries, present tremendous opportunities to improve resource productivity. In order to ensure secure materials supply and attenuate supply-demand imbalance, it is of utmost importance to look at opportunities to recycle and reuse from secondary sources. This presentation will describe the technological developments made to convert these valuable resources into functional manufactured materials for industrial applications.