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Abstract
Behavior of Br in pyrolysis of the printed circuit board waste with valuable copper and oil recycling has been studied
in the present work. Experimentally, pyrolysis of the printed circuit board waste generated approximately 40.6% of oils,
24.9% of noncondensible gases and 34.5% of solid residues that enriched in copper (9095%). The cuts of the oils
produced from pyrolysis of the printed circuit board waste into weighted boiling fraction were primarily light naphtha
and heavy gas oil. Approximately 72.3% of total Br in the printed circuit board waste were found in product gas mainly
as HBr and bromobenzene. However, by extended X-ray absorption ne structural (EXAFS) spectroscopy, CuO and
respectively, were observed in the solid residues. Essentially,
Cu(O)Cu species with bond distance of 1.87 and 2.95 A,
no CuBr species was found. 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Pyrolysis; Printed circuit board; Recycling; EXAFS; Bromine
1. Introduction
Over 100,000 TPY (tons per year) of printed circuit
board wastes are disposed o in Taiwan. Due to a high
bromine content, printed circuit board wastes are very
dicult to be treated eectively. Many techniques such
as landll, incineration and low-level reutilization or
recycling have been used in disposal of printed circuit
board wastes (Miyazaki et al., 1995; Sum, 1991; Bueken
and Schoeters, 1986). Incineration of printed circuit
board wastes does not count towards meeting the EU
minimum recycling target of 15%. In addition, the 5
15% of Br in printed circuit board wastes may cause an
operational diculty in handling of incineration byproducts such as HBr, Br2 and toxic brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and dioxin
(Mattila et al., 1992). At present, only solidication/
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52.21
6.11
Balanced
2.56
8.53
Trace
Trace
9.53
3.50
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Fig. 3. Infrared spectra and proton NMR data (in the right
corner) of the product oil generated from pyrolysis of the
printed circuit board waste at 823 K for 30 min.
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Table 2
Structural parameters for residues of pyrolysis of the printed
circuit board wastesa
2 )
Atom pair
CN
Bond disDr2 (A
tance (A)
CuO
Cu(O)Cu
a
2.46
2.11
4.24
5.67
1.87
3.58
2.79
4.53
0.006
0.009
0.008
0.009
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
The nancial support of the National Science
Council, Taiwan, ROC. (NSC-84-2211-E-006-022,
NSC-85-2621-P-006-003, and NSC-86-2113-M-006-020)
and CALEC Co. (83-S78) is gratefully acknowledged by
the authors.
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