Aqueous metal recovery techniques from e-scrap: Hydrometallurgy in recycling

Recovery of metals and nonmetals from electronic waste by physical and chemical recycling processes

Waste Printed Circuit Boards recycling: an extensive assessment of current status

A review of current progress of recycling technologies for metals from waste electrical and electronic equipment

A review of metal recovery from spent petroleum catalysts and ash

Leaching of copper and tin from used printed circuit boards after thermal treatment

Behavior of zinc, iron and calcium from electric arc furnace (EAF) dust in hydrometallurgical processing in sulfuric acid solutions: Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects

Acidic leaching both of zinc and iron from basic oxygen furnace sludge.

The increase in photovoltaic panel installations in Europe will generate vast amounts of waste in the near future. Therefore, it is important to develop new technologies that allow the recycling of end-of-life photovoltaic panels. This material can serve as a secondary resource, not only for precious metals (e.g. silver), but also for base metals. In this work, the extraction and recovery of the base metals copper, zinc and lead from a copper-rich photovoltaic panel residue was investigated. The material was first leached at 80 °C under microwave irradiation with a mixture of hydrochloric acid, sodium chloride and hydrogen peroxide solutions. Based on the Box–Behnken factorial design optimization, it was possible to extract 81.2% of Cu, 96.4% of Zn and 77.6% of Pb, under the following leaching conditions: [HCl] = 0.5 mol L−1, [NaCl] = 200 g L−1, [H2O2] = 7.5 wt% and t = 60 min. Cementation with iron powder at a 1.2 iron-to-copper stoichiometric ratio allowed the recovery of copper nearly quantitatively (99.8%) as a copper–iron sediment. The gas–liquid separation technique of ion flotation was employed to separate lead and zinc from the dilute copper-free leachate. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), a cationic surfactant, selectively recovered lead (99.4%) over zinc as lead(ii) tetrachloro cetyltrimethylammonium colloid, after eight ion flotation stages and [CTAB]total = 7.2 mmol L−1. The zinc that remained in the solution after the ion flotation step was recovered by precipitation and by adding sodium sulfide at 110% of the stoichiometric amount after removing iron as ferric hydroxide by slowly raising the pH to 3.7.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/ra/d1ra09268e

Recovery of copper, zinc and lead from photovoltaic panel residue

Leaching and Recovery of Stainless Steel Production Dusts in Acidic Media

Frantisek Kukurugya

Papers

Leaching of copper and tin from used printed circuit boards after thermal treatment

Behavior of zinc, iron and calcium from electric arc furnace (EAF) dust in hydrometallurgical processing in sulfuric acid solutions: Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects

Acidic leaching both of zinc and iron from basic oxygen furnace sludge.

Recovery of copper, zinc and lead from photovoltaic panel residue

Leaching and Recovery of Stainless Steel Production Dusts in Acidic Media