Cyanide consumption minimisation and concomitant toxic effluent minimisation during precious metals extraction from waste printed circuit boards

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Huan Li ◽  
Elsayed Oraby ◽  
Jacques Eksteen
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Cyanide Consumption ◽  
Metals Extraction

Mechanism of Gold Cyanidation in Bioleaching of Precious Metals from Waste Printed Circuit Boards

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (51) ◽  
pp. 18975-18981
Author(s):  
Mi Lin ◽  
Zhe Huang ◽  
Zhihui Yuan ◽  
Yonggao Fu ◽  
Jiaqi Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards

scholarly journals Current Status on Leaching Precious Metals from Waste Printed Circuit Boards

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 560-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhua Zhang ◽  
Shili Liu ◽  
Henghua Xie ◽  
Xianlai Zeng ◽  
Jinhui Li
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards

scholarly journals Recovery of Ag, Au, and Pt from Printed Circuit Boards by Pressure Leaching

Recycling ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Martinez-Ballesteros ◽  
Jesus Leobardo Valenzuela-García ◽  
Agustin Gómez-Alvarez ◽  
Martin Antonio Encinas-Romero ◽  
Flerida Adriana Mejía-Zamudio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sulfuric Acid ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Pressure Leaching ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Green Method ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Metals Extraction

Reclamation of printed circuit boards (PCBs) to recover metals is gaining growing attention due to minerals being non-renewable resources. Currently, metals extraction from PCBs through an efficient and green method is still under investigation. The present investigation concerns the recycling of printed circuit boards using hydrometallurgical processes. First, the basic metals (Cu, Ni, Zn and Fe) were separated using a sulfuric acid solution at moderate temperatures. The remaining solids were characterized by SEM-EDS, whereby a high content of precious metals (Au, Ag and Pt) was observed. In the second stage, solids were leached with a solution of HCl and NaClO in a 1-L titanium reactor with varied oxygen pressure (0.2, 0.34 and 0.55 MPa), temperature (40, 50 and 80 °C) and concentration of HCl (2 and 4 M), obtaining extractions above 95% at [HCl] = 4 M, P = 0.34 MPa and T = 40 °C. The extraction increased depending on the concentration of HCl. Eh–pH diagrams for Ag–Cl–H2O, Au–Cl–H2O and Pt–Cl–H2O were constructed to know the possible species in the solution.

A Novel Flowsheet for the Recycling of Valuable Constituents from Waste Printed Circuit Boards

2011 ◽  
pp. 296-306
Author(s):  
Jingfeng He ◽  
Yaqun He ◽  
Nianxin Zhou ◽  
Chenlong Duan ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Separation Efficiency ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Metal Recovery ◽  
Recovery Ratio ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Waste Pcbs ◽  
Impact Crushing

Waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) contain a number of valuable constituents. It is of great significance to separate precious metals and non-metallic constituents from waste PCBs with appropriate methods for resource recycling and environment protection. A novel flowsheet for the recycling of waste PCBs using physical beneficiation methods was constructed. Waste PCBs were disassembled into substrates and slots firstly. The substrates were crushed to the size below 1mm through wet impact crushing and separated with a tapered column separation bed. The results indicated that products with integrated separation efficiency of 93.9% and metal recovery ratio of 93.7% were obtained by the primary separation with the water discharge of 5.5 m3/h, feed-rate of 250g/min and inclination angle of 35°. Waste PCBs slots components were crushed to the size of 0.5-5mm through impact crushing and separated with an active pulsing air classifier. The separation results showed that products with integration separation efficiency of 92.4% and metal recovery ratio of 96.2% were obtained with the airflow velocity of 2.90m/s and pulsing frequency of 2.33Hz. Precious metals could be obtained by further separation and purification of the metal components and the non-metal components could be used as refuse derived fuel. The flowsheet has great potential to be applied in the field of waste PCBs treatment and recycling.

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