PriMera Scientific Engineering (ISSN: 2834-2550)

Review Article

Volume 2 Issue 3

A Review on The Sustainable Production of Copper Nanoparticles from Waste Copper Dust using Nanometer-Scale Zerovalent Iron Particles as Reducing Agent

Okanigbe Daniel Ogochukwu*

March 06, 2023

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Abstract

This Century will see an urgent up-scaling in the global production of copper nanoparticles due to the continuous industrial development and mounting need to address pressing global issues including non-pharmaceutical disease management and climate change. Mining, benefaction, refining, reagent synthesis, and finally nanoproduct synthesis are the typical linear multistage steps in the traditional copper nanoparticle synthesis process, which is energy and resource intensive. The utilization of nanometer-scale zerovalent iron particles as a reducing agent for environmentally friendly copper nanoparticle manufacturing from waste copper dust is discussed in this paper. Based on the revision, it is clear that this method has significant potential and could represent a completely new paradigm for the conversion of low-grade Cu bearing waste (such as waste copper dust) into useful nanoparticulate Cu compounds for a variety of industrial applications.

Keywords: waste copper dust; cementation; chemical reduction; hydrometallurgy; valorization

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