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US 2026/0209887 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for metals recovery
AssigneeFlash Metals USA Inc.
InventorsClifton T. KNIGHT, Aaron KNIGHT, Luis RODRIGUEZ, David CARPENCY, Steven RAGIEL
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Abstract
A metal treatment process may include crushing or grinding a metal-containing feedstock and heating the metal-containing feedstock in an inductive heating reactor or inductive/ohmic heating reactor.
Claims20
A metal treatment process comprising:
- crushing or grinding a metal-containing feedstock;
- and
- heating the metal-containing feedstock in an inductive heating reactor or inductive/ohmic heating reactor.
A metal extraction process comprising:
- crushing or grinding a metal-containing feedstock;
- combining the feedstock with a halogen gas;
- and
- reacting the metal-containing feedstock in an inductive heating reactor or inductive/ohmic heating reactor to form a metal halide.
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A semi-batch reaction system comprising;
- a reactor loading hopper;
- one or more inductive heating reactors or inductive/ohmic heating reactors in fluid connection with the reactor loading hopper;
- an outgassing manifold, the outgassing manifold in fluid connection with the one or more inductive heating reactors or inductive/ohmic heating reactors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.