The recycling of Mn-Zn ferrite wastes through a hydrometallurgical route

Highlights: → Mn-Zn ferrite wastes were recycled through wet chemical route. → The Mn-Zn ferrite takes advantage over A102 made in Acme Electronics Corporation. → The novel recycling technology attained environmental, social and economic benefits. - Abstract: A novel recycling route using acid leaching, reduction, purification, co-precipitation and traditional ceramic process was applied to process the Mn-Zn ferrite wastes and prepare the corresponding high permeability soft magnetic product. Above 95% of Fe, Mn, Zn in the waste materials could be recycled in the form of Mn-Zn ferrite products through the hydrometallurgical route. The comprehensive properties of Mn-Zn ferrite prepared from wastes by this route have broader frequency characteristics, higher resistivity, lower loss coefficient and temperature coefficient as compared to the A102 product (Acme Electronics Corporation, Taiwan). Moreover, the cost of this recycling technology has economical advantage over the traditional ceramic process, which holds a promising industrial application.