Safety and Health in the Non-ferrous Metals Industries

Safety and Health in the Non-ferrous Metals Industries
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2003
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789221116400

This new code of practice provides workers, employers and governments with practical safety and health guidelines for non-ferrous metal production - aluminium, copper, lead, manganese and zinc. If focuses on the general principles of prevention and protection, including risk assessment and management, training, and workplace and health surveillance. It identifies and examines a range of physical hazards commonly encountered in the production of non-ferrous metals such as noise, vibration, heat stress, radiation, confined spaces, dust and chemicals. In-depth sections also discuss health and safety measures for working with furnaces, molten metal, alloys and the process of recycling.

Sustainable Metals Management

Sustainable Metals Management
Author: Arnim von Gleich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2007-01-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402045395

Metals have been vital to human civilization for many thousands of years. Their durability and recyclability should make them ideal materials for a sustainable economy. This book assembles experts from many fields to discuss the conditions and limits of sustainable metals management. The contributors examine the theoretical ideas and goals of sustainability, and apply them across the metal making and trading process.

Fourth International Symposium on Recycling of Metals and Engineered Materials

Fourth International Symposium on Recycling of Metals and Engineered Materials
Author: Donald L. Stewart, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1421
Release: 2013-09-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118787935

This proceedings collection continues the tradition established by earlier TMS Recycling Meetings in this series by presenting fundamental and practical aspects of recycling metals and engineered materials.

Metal Recycling

Metal Recycling
Author:
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789280732672

Metal recycling is a complex business that is becoming increasingly difficult! Recycling started long ago, when people realized that it was more resource- and cost-efficient than just throwing away the resources and starting all over again. In this report, we discuss how to increase metal-recycling rates - and thus resource efficiency - from both quantity and quality viewpoints. The discussion is based on data about recycling input, and the technological infrastructure and worldwide economic realities of recycling. Decision-makers set increasingly ambitious targets for recycling, but far too much valuable metal today is lost because of the imperfect collection of end-of-life (EoL) products, improper practices, or structural deficiencies within the recycling chain, which hinder achieving our goals of high resource efficiency and resource security, and of better recycling rates.

Principles of Metal Refining and Recycling

Principles of Metal Refining and Recycling
Author: Thorvald Abel Engh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2021-10-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0192539884

Principles of Metal Refining and Recycling provides a self-contained introduction to the field of purification and recycling of metals. The scientific principles in the treatment of the various metals are the same. The importance of using a clean and properly alloyed metal is described in detail. The text covers thermodynamics, physical and transport properties, mixing, mass transfer and numerical models. It describes methods for removal of dissolved impurity elements, particles, and inclusions. It considers important aspects of the solidification process, remelting and adding of alloys. Recycling, future challenges and specific processes for each metal are discussed in detail. The book is a greatly extended update of the 1992 book Principles of Metal Refining by T. Abel Engh. It includes in particular the subjects of metal recycling, ferrous and non-ferrous metal refining, and metalloids like silicon.