Printed wiring boards for mobile phones: Characterization and recycling of copper

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2536-2545

  Kasper, Angela C ^a   Berselli, Guilherme B T ^a   Freitas, Bruno D ^a   Tenório, Jorge A S ^b   Bernardes, Andréa M ^a   Veit, Hugo M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Copper; Electrometallurgy; Hydrometallurgy; Mechanical processing; Mobile phones; Printed wiring board; Recovery

Indexed keywords

AQUA REGIA; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; COPPER CONTENT; DISSOLVED COPPER; ECONOMIC LOSS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; MECHANICAL PROCESSING; OBSOLETE EQUIPMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE CLASSIFICATION; PRINTED WIRING BOARD; TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COPPER; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROMETALLURGY; HYDROMETALLURGY; LOSSES; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; SMELTING; STEEL METALLURGY; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

COPPER SCRAP;

COPPER; POLYMER;

CERAMICS; COPPER; METALLURGY; POLYMER; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; COMMINUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISSOLUTION; ELECTROMETALLURGY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION; ELECTROWINNING; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HYDROMETALLURGY; MAGNETIC SEPARATION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MECHANICAL PROCESSING; METALLURGY; MOBILE PHONE; PARTICLE SIZE CLASSIFICATION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRINTED WIRING BOARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING;

CELLULAR PHONE; COPPER; ELECTRIC WIRING; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MAGNETICS; METALLURGY; NITRIC ACID; RECYCLING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 80054870678     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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