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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1995
Yoshiaki Yokoyama, Konosu, JP;
Teruhisa Ogihara, Ota, JP;
Teruhisa Ogihara, Gurnma, JP;
Abstract
A processing method by which metals may be recovered at a high purity from metal-containing waste materials. The method for processing metal-containing waste materials comprises crushing a metal-containing waste material to a particle size of 1-50 mesh, separating and recovering the metal-containing particles from the crushed portion, introducing the metal-containing particles into a vacuum heating furnace, pre-heating the furnace while under suction evacuation, and then raising the temperature of the furnace in stages while continuing the vacuum suctioning, recovering the metal and non-metal vapor produced at each temperature level using a condensing and adsorbing means, and recovering the liquated metals as melts. The method may be used to process waste batteries, copper-containing waste materials and the like in the same manner to recover high-purity metals.