Pyrometallurgy
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Pyrometallurgy, every show
Steingart: Pyrometallurgy is cheaper and more reliable than hydrometallurgy
“They are but they give you a guaranteed result, and it is generally cheaper than the cousin that, that I like more, which is hydrometallurgy.”
Cotton: Pyrometallurgy burns or loses lithium into unrecoverable slag
“That really is high temperature, fossil fuels based and it doesn't recover all the materials. For example, in lithium recycling you burn the lithium or you lose what lithium you don't burn into what's called slag, which is a solid waste stream that you can't r…”