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The Placid process is a hydrometallurgical technique for recovering lead from spent battery pastes. The process, when used in combination with a pyrometallurgy process, has the potential to recover high-purity lead and offers significant environmental improvements.
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Díaz, G., Andrews, D. Placid—A clean process for recycling lead from batteries. JOM 48, 29–31 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03221358
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