SLUDGE RECYCLING
August 1st, 2004
BY MATTHEW BRACEAUSTRALIAN scientists claim they have made a mineral-recycling breakthrough that should save the Australian metals and minerals sector an estimated A$295 (US$208) million in costs. The private-public project coordinated by the AJ Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Hydrometallurgy in Perth, Western Australia, boasts a fundamental advance in the understanding of processes for separating fine particles from water, produced new insights into the behaviour of flocculants, substances used to clump and separate particles from water. Project leader, ...
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