I. Masavetas, A. Moutsatsou, E. Nikolaou, S. Spanou, A. Zoikis – Karathanasis, E.A. Pavlatou, N. Spyrellis
Proceedings of the WasteEng08-2nd International Conference on Engineering for Waste Valorisation (2008), Patras, Greece, June 3-5, (CD-rom) (oral)
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is becoming a general trend of today, as it is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. In the present study PCBs were treated thermally and dissolved in three different acid media in order to dissolute copper. Electrodeposition technique was applied aiming to recover dendritic structure of copper. More than 98% of copper was recovered accompanied by a high current efficiency. The applied process led to a copper powder of 80 μm mean diameter.