Thiosulfate leaching of gold from waste mobile phones
Autor: | Manis Kumar Jha, Jinki Jeong, Vinh Hung Ha, Jae-chun Lee, Huynh Trung Hai |
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Rok vydání: | 2009 |
Předmět: |
Environmental Engineering
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Thiosulfates chemistry.chemical_element Industrial Waste Scrap chemistry.chemical_compound Ammonia Hazardous waste Environmental Chemistry Sulfate Waste Management and Disposal Thiosulfate Waste management Pulp and paper industry Pollution Copper Polychlorinated Biphenyls Solutions Kinetics chemistry Solubility Indicators and Reagents Spectrophotometry Ultraviolet Leaching (metallurgy) Gold Gold extraction Cell Phone |
Zdroj: | Journal of hazardous materials. 178(1-3) |
ISSN: | 1873-3336 |
Popis: | The present communication deals with the leaching of gold from the printed circuit boards (PCBs) of waste mobile phones using an effective and less hazardous system, i.e., a copper–ammonia–thiosulfate solution, as an alternative to the conventional and toxic cyanide leaching of gold. The influence of thiosulfate, ammonia and copper sulfate concentrations on the leaching of gold from PCBs of waste mobile phones was investigated. Gold extraction was found to be enhanced with solutions containing 15–20 mM cupric, 0.1–0.14 M thiosulfate, and 0.2–0.3 M ammonia. Similar trends were obtained for the leaching of gold from two different types of scraps and PCBs of waste mobile phones. From the scrap samples, 98% of the gold was leached out using a solution containing 20 mM copper, 0.12 M thiosulfate and 0.2 M ammonia. Similarly, the leaching of gold from the PCBs samples was also found to be good, but it was lower than that of scrap samples in similar experimental conditions. In this case, only 90% of the gold was leached, even with a contact time of 10 h. The obtained data will be useful for the development of processes for the recycling of gold from waste mobile phones. |
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