| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Rare Metal Extraction & Processing
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| Presentation Title |
Developed Commercial Processes to Recover Au, Ag, Pt and Pd from E-waste. |
| Author(s) |
Rekha Panda, Manis Kumar Jha, Jae-chun Lee, Devendra Deo Pathak |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Rekha Panda |
| Abstract Scope |
Due to the supply gap towards increasing demand as well as loss of precious metals by illegal recycling, present research reports application oriented processes developed at CSIR-NML, India to recover precious metals from small components of e-waste containing ~0.1-0.8% Ag, ~0.03-0.9% Au, ~0.01-0.02% Pd, ~0.0003-0.0005% Pt and related effluent. Firstly, ~99.99% Au was recovered from plated e-waste using the process of selective leaching followed by charcoal adsorption and heat treatment whereas the second process consists of dismantling, physical/ chemical pre-treatment of e-waste followed by hydrometallurgical processing to recover 99% Ag, 99.9% Au, 95% Pd and 90% Pt. Apart from the above, leaching and selective precipitation were used to recover ~95% Ag from waste computer keyboards. The effluent generated during the e-waste processing was found to contain ~8-10 mg/L Au, which was also recovered using ion-exchange technique. All processes presented are scientifically validated and after scale-up studies commercially viable. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Recycling and Secondary Recovery, Hydrometallurgy, Extraction and Processing |