Physical and Chemical Properties of the Waste Electronic Circuit Board

Hong Fen Wang

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.699.900

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Physical and Chemical Properties of the Waste Electronic Circuit Board

Abstract:

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) and copper-clad laminate (CCLs) are the foundation of the electronic industry, and the core components of all kinds of electronic products. With the accelerated pace of information equipment replacement, waste PCBs and CCLs increase every year, and generated a lot of e-waste. Sweden Ronnskar smelter made an analysis on elements of the PCBs used in the personal computer, the results showed that the PCBs generally contain precious metals gold, silver and non-ferrous metals such as copper, wherein the mass fraction of copper is up to 26.8%, the mass concentration of gold and silver respectively reached 80 g/t and 3300 g/t, which much higher than the average gold grade and having high recycling value. Waste PCBs also contain heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, chromium, which have a great deal of harm to the environment and human body. This paper focuses on the physical and chemical properties of the electronic circuit board such as calorific value and moisture, on the content measurement and analysis of gold, copper and other precious metals so that the physical and chemical properties of the ingredients in waste PCBs and CCLs are determined from a qualitative and quantitative point of view, which is very important for looking for recyclable value of the waste PCBs and CCLs and for determining the best method of recycling them. The test results showed that the waste PCBs and CCLs had very high recycling value.