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- Title
Tellurium, its resourcefulness and recovery.
- Authors
Wang, Shijie
- Abstract
Although it looks similar to tin, tellurium is a metalloid chemical element which is used in a variety of industries, primarily in the form of an additive to an assortment of compounds and alloys. As solar cell technology has improved the cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV modules have become among the lowest-cost producers of solar electricity. Consequently, interest has recently been focused on tellurium recovery. In this paper, tellurium's availability and its distribution in general metallurgical processing is summarized and analyzed. Because tellurium is the scarcest of all the byproducts and mainly recovered from copper sulfides, hydrometallurgical recovery of tellurium from electrolytic copper anode slimes is described.
- Subjects
TELLURIUM metallurgy; SOLAR cells; TELLURIDES; COPPER sulfide; SELENIUM
- Publication
JOM: The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 2011, Vol 63, Issue 8, p90
- ISSN
1047-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11837-011-0146-7