High-Temperature Fluidized Bed Processing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) as a Way to Recover Raw Materials

This paper explores the effectiveness of metal recovery and values gaseous emissions during thermal e-waste processing followed by magnetic separation. The process conversion this kind waste is difficult due to uncertainty operation when compared homogeneous materials. their complex heterogeneous structure. adoption fluidized bed reactor makes feasible, stabilizing it significantly limiting harmful gases. Mobile cellphones were used as raw input material 450 g total mass. During transformation, exhaust gases such as: CO, CO2, NOx, SO2, HCI, HBr, HCN, NH3, phenol, hydrocarbons, HF COCI2 analysed. treatment resulted in 333.6 solids bed. They fragmented into grains smaller than 1 mm 0.5 mm. enrichment was next on greater carried out using a neodymium magnet for particles >1 plate electromagnetic separator (powered three-phase current) together with 1-disc tape-type separator, which <1 Such an approach 81.9% cobalt, 96.6% iron 99.2% neodymium. most efficient method enriching (MS) proved be use separator.