Dismantling of Waste Printed Circuit Boards with the Simultaneous Recovery of Copper: Experimental Study and Process Modeling.

Szabolcs Fogarasi, Árpád Imre-Lucaci, Florica Imre-Lucaci

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Szabolcs FogarasiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, 11 Arany Janos Street, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-9917-6406

Árpád Imre-LucaciDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, 11 Arany Janos Street, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Florica Imre-LucaciInterdisciplinary Research Institute on Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, 42 Treboniu Laurian Street, 400271 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Abstract

The study was carried out with the aim to demonstrate the applicability of a combined chemical-electrochemical process for the dismantling of waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs) created from different types of electronic equipment. The concept implies a simple and less polluting process that allows the chemical dismantling of WPCBs with the simultaneous recovery of copper from the leaching solution and the regeneration of the leaching agent. In order to assess the performance of the dismantling process, various tests were performed on different types of WPCBs using the 0.3 M FeCl

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copper recoveryeconomic assessmentmetals dissolutionprocess modeling and simulationWPCBs dismantling

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PMID34576406

DOI10.3390/ma14185186

PMCPMC8465044

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