An advanced study on the hydrometallurgical processing of waste computer printed circuit boards to extract their valuable content of metals

Waste Management

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2581-2586

  Birloaga, Ionela ^a   Coman, Vasile ^b   Kopacek, Bernd ^c   Vegliò, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c Austrian Society for System Engineering and Automation   (Austria)

Author keywords

Copper; Oxidative leaching; Precious metal; Thiourea cross leaching; Waste computer printed circuit board

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COPPER; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; FILTRATION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROMETALLURGY; LEACHING; OXIDATION; PEROXIDES; POWDER METALS; PRECIOUS METALS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SULFUR DETERMINATION; SULFURIC ACID; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THIOUREAS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ACID CONCENTRATIONS; CEMENTATION PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY METHODS; HYDROMETALLURGICAL PROCESSING; METALS EXTRACTIONS; OXIDATIVE LEACHING; SULFURIC ACID MEDIUM; WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD;

EXTRACTION;

COPPER; GOLD; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEAD; NICKEL; SILVER; SULFURIC ACID; THIOUREA; TIN; ZINC;

BASE METAL; COPPER; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; METALLURGY; PRECIOUS METAL; SOLID WASTE; SULFURIC ACID; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CEMENTATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HYDROMETALLURGICAL PROCESSING; LEACHING; METAL EXTRACTION; METAL RECOVERY; OXIDATION KINETICS; PURIFICATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; RECYCLING;

COPPER; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GOLD; RECYCLING; SILVER; THIOUREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84910659325     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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