MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411030553 A) filed by Attero Recycling Pvt. Ltd., Roorkee, Uttarakhand, on April 16, 2024, for 'a method for recovery of rare earth elements and base metals from magnet scrap.'
Inventor(s) include Smruti Prakash Barik; G Prabaharan; Bhuvnesh Kumar; Amit Kulkarni; and Nitin Gupta.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for recovery of rare earth elements and base metals from magnet scrap of electronic wastes. The method of the present invention provides simple and easy to operate steps that includes demagnetization by heat treatment, ball milling, leaching, precipitation and selective extraction. The present invention provides a simple, easy to operate and environment friendly method for recovery of rare earth elements and base metals from neodymium (Nd)-magnet scrap of electronic wastes that recovers 90.6%-99% of rare earth elements with % purity in a range of 96.3-99.5%. on sheet no. 1 of the drawings may accompany the abstract when published."
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