화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.37, No.1, 111-119, January, 2020
DOI10.1007/s11814-019-0412-x  Export Citation
Recycling of gold from waste electronic components of devices
Rekha Panda1, 2, Om Shankar Dinkar1, Manis Kumar Jha1, †, and Devendra Deo Pathak2
  • 1Metal Extraction and Recycling Division, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur 831007, India
  • 2Department of Applied Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826004, India
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Tremendous generation of e-waste and its illegal recycling are causing immense threat to environment as well as the loss of precious metals. The present research reports a novel hybrid process for the total recovery of gold from small depopulated components of e-waste. Connectors and integrated circuits (ICs) liberated from printed circuit boards (PCBs) were pulverized and processed for gold leaching using 10 g/L sodium cyanide solution at 40 °C and mixing time 15 min, where more than 95% gold was found to be leached out in single stage. From the obtained leach liquor, gold metal was recovered by charcoal adsorption followed by heat treatment. The raffinate left after adsorption of gold was found to contain ~10mg/L gold, which was also recovered using Amberlite IRA 400Cl at equilibrium pH 9.6 in 30 min maintaining aqueous/resin (A/R) ratio 25 mL/g. The raffinate solution was enriched to 882.41mg/L and the solution was further processed to get metal/salt using cementation/ evaporation. Obtained leached residue is processed for non-ferrous metals recovery and finally disposed-off after treatment and TCLP test. The effluent left after leaching could be easily decomposed and treated in ETP using standard environmental procedure.
Keywords:E-waste;Recycling;Gold;Leaching;Ion-exchange
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