Metallurgical and Electronic Waste Recycling

By Prof. Arunabh Meshram | IIT Kanpur

Learners enrolled: 519 | Exam registration: 79

ABOUT THE COURSE:
The course provides an insight into modern recycling routes for recovering valuable metals and materials from metallurgical and electronic wastes. The fundamentals of recycling are blended with the processes to provide emphasis on the application of the processes. With a wide variety of raw materials and dedicated recycling routes, concepts of material extraction and recovery will be discussed. Importance of material pretreatment and environmental benefits of materials recycling have also been described.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering interested in Materials Recycling and its application in modern extractive metallurgy

PREREQUISITES: Introductory course on Principles of Extractive Metallurgy

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Metallurgical industries:

Hindalco
Nalco
Vedanta
Hindustan Copper Limited
Tata Steel
Jindal Steel and many others

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Metallurgy and Material science & Mining Engineering Minor in Metallurgy
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	19 Aug 2024
End Date :	11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	19 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends :	30 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	02 Nov 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Materials Recycling and waste management, Categories of metallurgical and electronic waste

Week 2: Key unit operations involved in pre-treatment of metallurgical and electronic waste, Application of pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy and electrometallurgy and refining for Material separation and enrichment of raw materials

Week 3: Metallurgical waste recycling I: Aluminium industrial waste, dross, scrap, red mud, spent pot lining, salt slag

Week 4: Metallurgical waste recycling II: Copper industrial waste, smelter slags, raffinates, spent electrolytes,

Week 5: Metallurgical waste recycling III: Zinc industrial waste, zinc ash, zinc dross, flue dust and scraps

Week 6: Metallurgical waste recycling IV: Iron and Steelmaking waste, scraps, ironmaking slag, steelmaking slag and wastewater

Week 7: Electronic waste recycling I: Waste Printed Circuit Board, delamination and metal recovery

Week 8: Electronic waste recycling II: Spent batteries and recovery of valuable materials from waste electrodes, Environmental impacts of materials recycling

Books and references

1. Resource Recovery and Recycling from Metallurgical Wastes, Ed:S. Ramachandra Rao, waste Management Series, 7, Elsevier B.V.
2. Electronic Waste Recycling Techniques, Hugo Marcelo Veit andAndrea Moura Bernardes, Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and MaterialsEngineering, Springer International Publishing Switzerland
3. Electronic Waste Management, R. E. Heister and R. M. Harrison,Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, 27, RSCPublishing, Cambridge

Instructor bio

Prof. Arunabh Meshram

IIT Kanpur

Prof. Arunabh Meshram is Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He was awarded his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2019. His broad areas of interest lie in Non-Ferrous Extractive Metallurgy, Materials Recovery, Metallurgical and E-waste recycling and development of valuable products.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 02 November 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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