Authors: Shijie Wang
Publish Date: 2011/08/19
Volume: 63, Issue: 8, Pages: 90-
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 lowestcost 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
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