Cleanup Case Study of Waste Printed Circuit Boards on Illegal Dumping Sites

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 2865-2869
Author(s):  
Chih Yen Chou ◽  
Ching Jung Chang ◽  
Alex Wang ◽  
Pei Yao Wu ◽  
Chung Pao Wu
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Toxic Heavy Metal ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Acid Washing ◽  
Industrial Technology Research Institute ◽  
Contamination Removal

This paper study was commenced to treat fatal contamination at the Er-Jen River, supplied water for agricultural irrigation, aquaculture and industrial in Kaohsiung and Tainan Area, when the Sixth River Management of Water Resources Agency (WRA) developed the project to build flood embankment. The fatal contamination was throw into the discard by illegal manufacturer which discarded the wastage of printed circuit boards, toxic heavy metal contained sludge, and waste aluminum slag. The treatment project was conducted by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on preliminary tests, cleanup planning, and process supervision to ensure contamination removal, flood protection, and landscape improvement. The accumulative volume cleaned and screened on this site reached 45,159 cubic meters, whereas 378.25 tons of waste printed circuit boards, 12,833 tons of toxic heavy metal contained sludge, and 31,000 tons of general industrial wastages. The waste printed circuit boards through stripping/acid washing and screening, there are 334.653 tons valuable (including 0.143 tons of copper and 334.51 tons of wire casting materials) from the recycle extract and 43.597 tons of wastes that were not valuable for reutilize. Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) tests were conducted on the site after cleanup to verify the treatment work successful, because the rate of contamination removal was greater than 90%.

Isolation and characterization of copper leaching microbes from sanitary landfills for copper bioleaching of waste printed circuit boards

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syafiq Razali ◽  
Fatimah Azizah Riyadi ◽  
Fazrena Nadia Md Ak ◽  
Muhamad Ali Muhammad Yuzir ◽  
Nor’azizi Othman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Acid Leaching ◽  
Metal Extraction ◽  
Soluble Form ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Isolation And Characterization

Abstract Electronic waste has been the fastest increasing waste generated globally and predicted to surpass 111 million tons per year by the end of 2050. The amount of e-waste is a concern not just due to its volume, but also due to its high composition of heavy metal elements, which has leads to increased development of urban mining in terms of heavy metal extraction. One common method of extraction, i.e., acid leaching, is known for its harmful residual leachate, in which can have a high impact on the environment. This focuses on the alternative leaching techniques known as bioleaching, which take advantages of microbial activity in mobilization of metal into a more soluble form. Strains from sanitary landfill soil were isolated in acidic media and identified as Bacillus sp. strain SE, Lysinibacillus sp. strain SE2, Bacillus sp. strain S1A, and Oryzobacter sp. strain SC. Among the isolated stains, the identified strain Oryzobacter sp. strain SC was able to extract up to 23.36 ppm copper from waste printed circuit boards using a two-step bioleaching process, confirming the ability of the strain to perform bioleaching of copper from e-waste.

LEACHING OF METALS FROM WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS (WPCBs) USING SULFURIC AND NITRIC ACIDS

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2601-2607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-chun Lee ◽  
Manoj Kumar ◽  
Min-Seuk Kim ◽  
Jinki Jeong ◽  
Kyoungkeun Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards

scholarly journals Effective Recovery Process of Copper from Waste Printed Circuit Boards Utilizing Recycling of Leachate

JOM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joona Rajahalme ◽  
Siiri Perämäki ◽  
Roshan Budhathoki ◽  
Ari Väisänen
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
Sulfuric Acid ◽  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Sulfuric Acid Concentration ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Copper Recovery ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Acid Consumption

AbstractThis study presents an optimized leaching and electrowinning process for the recovery of copper from waste printed circuit boards including studies of chemical consumption and recirculation of leachate. Optimization of leaching was performed using response surface methodology in diluted sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide media. Optimum leaching conditions for copper were found by using 3.6 mol L−1 sulfuric acid, 6 vol.% hydrogen peroxide, pulp density of 75 g L−1 with 186 min leaching time at 20°C resulting in complete leaching of copper followed by over 92% recovery and purity of 99.9% in the electrowinning. Study of chemical consumption showed total decomposition of hydrogen peroxide during leaching, while changes in sulfuric acid concentration were minor. During recirculation of the leachate with up to 5 cycles, copper recovery and product purity remained at high levels while acid consumption was reduced by 60%.

scholarly journals Food Waste-Assisted Metal Extraction from Printed Circuit Boards: The Aspergillus niger Route

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 895
Author(s):  
Carlotta Alias ◽  
Daniela Bulgari ◽  
Fabjola Bilo ◽  
Laura Borgese ◽  
Alessandra Gianoncelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Aspergillus Niger ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Solid State Fermentation ◽  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Metal Extraction ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards

A low-energy paradigm was adopted for sustainable, affordable, and effective urban waste valorization. Here a new, eco-designed, solid-state fermentation process is presented to obtain some useful bio-products by recycling of different wastes. Urban food waste and scraps from trimmings were used as a substrate for the production of citric acid (CA) by solid state fermentation of Aspergillus niger NRRL 334, with a yield of 20.50 mg of CA per gram of substrate. The acid solution was used to extract metals from waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs), one of the most common electronic waste. The leaching activity of the biological solution is comparable to a commercial CA one. Sn and Fe were the most leached metals (404.09 and 67.99 mg/L, respectively), followed by Ni and Zn (4.55 and 1.92 mg/L) without any pre-treatments as usually performed. Commercial CA extracted Fe more efficiently than the organic one (123.46 vs. 67.99 mg/L); vice versa, biological organic CA recovered Ni better than commercial CA (4.55 vs. 1.54 mg/L). This is the first approach that allows the extraction of metals from WPCBs through CA produced by A. niger directly grown on waste material without any sugar supplement. This “green” process could be an alternative for the recovery of valuable metals such as Fe, Pb, and Ni from electronic waste.

Physical pre-concentration and ammonium leaching of metal copper from waste printed circuit boards

2021 ◽  
pp. 128512
Author(s):  
Shun-xiang Shi ◽  
Chun-chen Nie ◽  
Hong-hao Chang ◽  
Peng Wu ◽  
Zheng-jie Piao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Waste Printed Circuit Boards
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