Abstract
More than one million tons of polycarbonates and over 500,000 tons of flame retardants are consigned to landfills each year in the form of waste electrical and electronic equipment. Electronic waste is the fasting growing waste steam at a rate of 3-5% per year. Two separation processes are developed to efficiently recover these valuable compounds.
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Chemical Engineering
Date of Award
January 2016
Recommended Citation
Weeden Jr., George S., "Design of Mixed-Solvent Extraction and Size-Exclusion Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography to Recover Valuable Compounds from Electronic Waste" (2016). Open Access Dissertations. 1283.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1283
First Advisor
Nien-Hwa Linda Wang
Committee Member 1
Osman Basaran
Committee Member 2
Chongli Yuan
Committee Member 3
Abigail Engelberth