Indian Institute of Technology ( Banaras Hindu University )
A public engineering institution founded in 1919 as part of the Banaras Hindu University. It was designated an Indian Institute of Technology in 2012. IIT (BHU) has 13 departments and three inter-dis
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Pyrolysis of Printed Circuit Boards
Oct 03, 2013 | T. R. Mankhand, K. K. Singh, Sumit Kumar Gupta, Somnath Das
Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is an essential component of almost all electrical and electronic equipments. The rapid growth of the use of such equipments has contributed enormously to the generation of large quantity of waste PCBs. The WPCBs not only contain valuable metals but also a large variety of hazardous materials. Conventional treatments of such WPCBs have their own limitations. By pyrolysis of WPCBs, it is not only possible to obtain the organic part of it as a fuel or useful chemical but can make further processing to recover metals much easier and efficient. In the present work, a kinetic study on the low temperature pyrolysis of WPCBs using a thermogravimetric analyser has been attempted......
