Process development for recovery of copper and precious metals from waste printed circuit boards with emphasize on palladium and gold leaching and precipitation

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2354-2363

  Behnamfard, Ali ^a   Salarirad, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Veglio, Francesco ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gold and palladium leaching and precipitation; Process flow sheet; Waste printed circuit boards

Indexed keywords

HYDROMETALLURGICAL PROCESS; PALLADIUM LEACHING; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS FLOW-SHEET; SODIUM BORO HYDRIDES; SULFURIC ACID LEACHING; WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD; WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCBS);

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COPPER; GOLD; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; OXIDATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; RECOVERY; SILVER; THIOUREAS;

LEACHING;

CHLORIDE; COPPER; FERRIC ION; GOLD; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; OXIDIZING AGENT; PALLADIUM; REDUCING AGENT; SILVER; SULFURIC ACID; THIOUREA;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DISSOLUTION; GOLD; LEACHING; PALLADIUM; PRECIOUS METAL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ELECTRONICS; KINETICS; LEACHING; LIQUID; METAL RECOVERY; METALLURGY; PRECIPITATION; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SOLID; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

POLYGALA INCARNATA;

GOLD AND PALLADIUM LEACHING AND PRECIPITATION; PROCESS FLOW SHEET; WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

ALGORITHMS; BOROHYDRIDES; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; COPPER; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GOLD; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PALLADIUM; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; SULFURIC ACIDS; THIOUREA;

EID: 84885172954     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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