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WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 400-406Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.08.049
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Wettability; Contact angle; Inverse flotation; Recycling; Printed circuit board
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Recycling printed circuit boards using green technology is increasingly important due to the metals these contain and the environmental care that must be taken when separating the different materials. Inverse flotation is a process that can be considered a Green Technology, which separates metallic from nonmetallic fractions. The degree of separation depends on how much material is adhered to air bubbles. The contact angle measurement allows to determine, in an easy way, whether the flotation process will occur or not and thus establish a material as hydrophobic or not. With the material directly obtained from the milling process, it was found that the contact angle of the non-metallic fraction-liquid-air system increases as temperature increases. In the same way, the increments in concentration of frother in the liquid increase the contact angle of the non-metallic fraction-liquid-air system. 10 ppm of Methyl Isobutyl Carbinol provides the highest contact angle as well as the highest material charging in the bubble. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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