Bahram Behnajady

Objective

• Apllication of green solvents in metals extraction and recovery from variety of primary and secondary sources
• Working on new, cutting-edge topics in Extractive Metallurgy & Hydrometallurgy
• Recycling E-waste and using end-life waste in a variety of applications
• Continuing my graduate studies & research plans (toward new aspects of Extractive Metallurgy)
• Transformation of the new Ideas into operations

Interests

• Metals recycling and resource recovery
• Primary metals extraction and metals refining
• Hydrometallurgical processing of resource materials
• Development of new technologies for metals recovery
• Immobilization of toxic species (e.g. arsenic and mercury)
• Solvent extraction
• Ion exchange
• Electrowinning
• Electrochemical dissolution of complex minerals (fundamental studies)
• Research and Development (R&D)

 Research and Development & Pilot Plant & Industrial Projects

• Hydrometallurgical production of lead from zinc plant residue
• Gold and silver extraction via chloride media from refractory jarosite residue
• Atmospheric leaching of Sphalerite in acidic ferric media
• Metals separation from scrap Li-ions batteries
• Recovery of Zinc, nickel and cadmium from cold purification filter cake (Ni-Cd purification)
• Electrowinning of Cadmium from cadmium sulfate solution
• Precipitation of high concentration iron ions by Jarosite process in zinc ingot production
• Investigation of the impurities interaction in electrowinning of zinc sulfate solution
• Recycling of zinc and copper from brass slag
• Preparation of nano strontium carbonate powder from celestine

• Diagnosis of Zinc Production Route in different sections
• Decreasing of Zinc content in hot purification residue by adjusting pH
• Celestine replacement instead of carbonate strontium in removing lead from zinc electrolyte solution
• Parameter optimization of zinc-ferrite leaching in sulfuric acid media