Life Cycle Assessment of the NdFeB Recycling Process Route for Oil Sludge Waste Treatment

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In this paper, based on the life cycle concept of oil sludge waste from the NdFeB manufacturing process, we investigate the process technology route to recover valuable elements from the oil sludge waste by hydro-metallurgical refining and calcium reduction to fabricate a sintered NdFeB magnet. The life cycle list was calculated and the environmental impact of the main processes was examined using the ReCiPe method, and the main factors of environmental impact were identified. The results showed that the hydrometallurgical technology route, compared with the calcium reduction technology route, resulted in 119.84% of human health hazards, 119.84% of ecological damage and 119.84% of resource. The consumption was found to be 13.08% higher than that of FDP. The sensitivity analysis revealed that the production of hydrochloric acid is highly sensitive to FDP, and power consumption is high to WTP in the hydrometallurgical technology route, and WTP in the calcium reduction unit process, and HTP in all processes in the calcium reduction technology route. The overall results show that reducing the environmental impact in the calcium reduction recovery process and accelerating the clean production of China's power resources are of great significance for the recovery of oil sludge waste for the preparation of recycled sintered NdFeB.

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Materials Science Forum (Volume 1035)

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