Repair and recovery: method
20,000 leads. 40 recovery streams x 25 separation mechanisms x 20 verification tests. Recovery claims fail at verification far more often than at separation. None tested except the
items on the results page.
The composition is balanced: every domain meets every degradation path and every signal, so the catalogue
is a complete grid rather than a ranked list. That is deliberate — for forensics and recovery the useful
move is often to notice a combination nobody tries, which a ranked list hides.
1. Domains (40)
| Domain | Leads |
|---|
| spent battery black mass | 500 |
| e-waste boards | 500 |
| catalyst recovery | 500 |
| solvent recovery | 500 |
| pickling liquor | 500 |
| plating rinse water | 500 |
| phosphorus from sewage | 500 |
| nitrogen recovery | 500 |
| brine processing | 500 |
| rare earth separation | 500 |
| precious metal refining | 500 |
| zinc from dust | 500 |
| aluminium dross | 500 |
| steel slag | 500 |
| fly ash | 500 |
| gypsum recovery | 500 |
| CO2 mineralisation | 500 |
| hydrogen recovery | 500 |
| helium recovery | 500 |
| methane from vents | 500 |
| oil from sludge | 500 |
| plastic pyrolysis oil | 500 |
| textile fibre recycling | 500 |
| paper deinking | 500 |
| glass cullet | 500 |
| tire rubber | 500 |
| construction demolition | 500 |
| asphalt binder | 500 |
| wood residues | 500 |
| food waste streams | 500 |
| dairy whey | 500 |
| brewery spent grain | 500 |
| fish processing waste | 500 |
| bone and collagen | 500 |
| feather keratin | 500 |
| membrane concentrate | 500 |
| ion exchange regenerate | 500 |
| scrubber blowdown | 500 |
| cooling tower blowdown | 500 |
| produced water | 500 |
2. Mechanisms (25)
| Mechanism | Leads |
|---|
| precipitation | 800 |
| ion exchange | 800 |
| solvent extraction | 800 |
| membrane filtration | 800 |
| electrodialysis | 800 |
| electrowinning | 800 |
| adsorption | 800 |
| crystallisation | 800 |
| distillation | 800 |
| evaporation | 800 |
| centrifugation | 800 |
| flotation | 800 |
| leaching | 800 |
| bioleaching | 800 |
| pyrolysis | 800 |
| gasification | 800 |
| hydrothermal treatment | 800 |
| supercritical extraction | 800 |
| complexation | 800 |
| chelating resin | 800 |
| pH swing | 800 |
| temperature swing | 800 |
| pressure swing | 800 |
| redox control | 800 |
| electrochemical reduction | 800 |
3. Signals / quantities / verifications (20)
| Item | Leads |
|---|
| mass balance closure | 1,000 |
| purity assay | 1,000 |
| second-laboratory check | 1,000 |
| spike recovery | 1,000 |
| blank contamination | 1,000 |
| selectivity against interferents | 1,000 |
| scale-up test | 1,000 |
| energy per kilogram | 1,000 |
| water balance | 1,000 |
| reagent consumption | 1,000 |
| yield repeatability | 1,000 |
| product specification | 1,000 |
| waste stream analysis | 1,000 |
| trace contaminant scan | 1,000 |
| isotopic tracer | 1,000 |
| residence-time distribution | 1,000 |
| equipment corrosion rate | 1,000 |
| fouling rate | 1,000 |
| regeneration cycling | 1,000 |
| off-spec fraction | 1,000 |
4. How to use it
- Find your domain and the signal you already have.
- Read across the row: every mechanism consistent with that signal is listed.
- Ask which one your current test cannot exclude. That is the lead.
5. Limits
- Balanced and therefore unfiltered; the grid contains nonsense by construction.
- No prior-art check; several rows are standard practice.
- Only the results page has numbers.
Incoprea Research · 3 November 2026. Composition and
computation. No experiment performed.