Optimizing the thiosulfate leaching of gold from printed circuit boards of discarded mobile phone

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 149, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-126

  Ha, Vinh Hung ^a   Lee, Jae Chun ^b,c   Huynh, Trung Hai ^a   Jeong, Jinki ^b,c   Pandey, B D ^d  

^a HANOI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^c University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

^d NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

E waste; Gold; Optimization; PCBs; Thiosulfate leaching

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COPPER; GOLD; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; MOBILE PHONES; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

E-WASTE; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN PROCESS; PCBS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCBS); PSEUDO-FIRST ORDER KINETIC MODEL; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; THIOSULFATE LEACHING;

LEACHING; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84907275397     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2014.07.007     Document Type: Article

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