Rare earth element criticality and sustainable management

DOI

10.2991/icsmim-15.2016.168How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Railway, Track allocation problem, Bottleneck section, Stochastic schedule, Simulated annealing algorithm.

Abstract

Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical for their functions in many clean energy technologies, but many of these technologies use REEs which are at risk of supply disruption. For this reason, scientific research on the problems surrounding the supply side of these rare earth elements (REE) has recently bloomed. Concerns about tighter supplies that might increase costs for producing the necessary green technology take the “criticality” of some of these elements as a warning sign. In many papers, a cursory explanation of this criticality is given at most. In order to come up with management strategies that are able to help address the criticality of some of these elements, a scientific plausible picture should be given. The aim of this paper is do so by basing itself on a literature review of recent work.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Danielle Drost
AU  - Rongchang Wang
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TI  - Rare earth element criticality and sustainable management
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 4th International Conference on Sensors, Measurement and Intelligent Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 914
EP  - 919
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsmim-15.2016.168
DO  - 10.2991/icsmim-15.2016.168
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