What equipment is used for recycling waste PCBs?

For recycling waste PCBs, there are two kinds of equipments is required. The one is electronic components dismantling machine, which is used to dismantle the electronic components from waste PCBs, and the other is waste PCBs recycling equipment, which can crush and separate waste printed circuit boards to extract the precious metal mixture.

Don't know much about these two equipments? Don't worry, I will introduce these two equipments next.

1. Electronic components dismantling machine

Electronic components dismantling machine

The function of electronic components dismantling machine is to remove electronic components from waste PCBs. Well, why do we need to dismantle the electronic components firstly? The reason is simple, because electronic components are generally composed of iron, plastic and other materials, which has pretty low recycling value. If it is not removed in advance, it will affect the purity and selling price of the final product.

DOING electronic components dismantling machine adopts the principle of heating the solder at high temperature, and then uses the collision and friction between the PCBs to make the electronic components fall off quickly and cleanly. The following video can help you have a clear understanding of the working process.

2. Waste PCBs recycling equipment

Waste PCBs recycling equipment is a production line used for recycling waste PCBs, which includes shredder, crusher, eddy-vibrating screen, air separator and electrostatic separator. Through the mutual work of each part, precious metal mixture will be sorted out of scrap PCBs. The following is a 3D animation, which shows that in details step by step.

DOING waste PCBs recycling equipment adopts a physical separation method for recycling waste PCBs, which won't produce any air or water pollution, and won't damage the quality of metal mixture. In addition, the configuration of the electrostatic separator can make the separation rate as high as 99%.

After processing, what you get are precious metal mixture and resin fiber, which have high recycling value. For example, you can extract gold or copper from mixed metal for sale, or sold the metals directly, because they retain their original properties, which can be reused.

Final products and application

Moreover, resin fiber also have wide application. Such as, they are used widely for trays, sewer grates, kitchen utensils, electronic switches etc. with properties comparable to that of composites with traditional filler.

As for the actual profit, you can take the following profit analysis table for reference to calculate.

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