Abstract:
:This study investigates, verifies and determines the optimal parameters for the selective thermal transformation of problematic electronic waste (e-waste) to produce value-added copper-tin (Cu-Sn) based alloys; thereby demonstrating a novel new pathway for the cost-effective recovery of resources from one of the world's fastest growing and most challenging waste streams. Using outdated computer printed circuit boards (PCBs), a ubiquitous component of e-waste, we investigated transformations across a range of temperatures and time frames. Results indicate a two-step heat treatment process, using a low temperature step followed by a high temperature step, can be used to produce and separate off, first, a lead (Pb) based alloy and, subsequently, a Cu-Sn based alloy. We also found a single-step heat treatment process at a moderate temperature of 900 °C can be used to directly transform old PCBs to produce a Cu-Sn based alloy, while capturing the Pb and antimony (Sb) as alloying elements to prevent the emission of these low melting point elements. These results demonstrate old computer PCBs, large volumes of which are already within global waste stockpiles, can be considered a potential source of value-added metal alloys, opening up a new opportunity for utilizing e-waste to produce metal alloys in local micro-factories.
journal_name
J Environ Managejournal_title
Journal of environmental managementauthors
Shokri A,Pahlevani F,Cole I,Sahajwalla Vdoi
10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.028subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-09-01 00:00:00pages
7-12eissn
0301-4797issn
1095-8630pii
S0301-4797(17)30487-5journal_volume
199pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Algal blooms, whether they are harmful or more akin to a nuisance, do pose negative impacts on human well-being. In the province of Quebec, excessive phosphorus that contributes to the problem of cyanobacterial blooms comes mainly from non-point sources. Limited regulation on the management of this nutrient leads to i...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109271
更新日期:2019-10-15 00:00:00
abstract::It is important to understand the status and extent of soil contamination with trace elements to make sustainable management strategies for agricultural soils. The inputs of trace elements to agricultural soils via atmospheric deposition, livestock manures, fertilizers and agrochemicals, sewage irrigation and sewage s...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.01.011
更新日期:2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::This work reports the comparative performance of two Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs), electrochemical oxidation and photocatalysis, as individual technological alternatives for the treatment of effluents containing p-cresol. First, the influence of operating parameters in the oxidation and mineralization yield was...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.04.049
更新日期:2017-06-15 00:00:00
abstract::Glyphosate (GLY) is considered the most used herbicide in the world and has been associated with several environmental contamination risks. Despite being partially degraded by soil microorganisms, its residues can negatively affect the growth of valuable non-target plants. Thus, there is a need to find new strategies ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.04.035
更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Public perception towards contaminated site management, a not readily quantifiable latent parameter, was linked through structural equation modeling in this paper to 22 measurable/observable manifest variables associated with the extent of information dissemination and public knowledge of soil pollution, attitude towa...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.01.029
更新日期:2018-03-15 00:00:00
abstract::Competition for resources can affect growth and increase mortality in forest stands. The effects of this process are little known, especially in areas subjected to forest management which show distinct growth dynamics when compared to unmanaged natural areas. This study aimed to estimate, evaluate and select the best ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111898
更新日期:2021-01-09 00:00:00
abstract::Since the flushing time is a physical descriptor used to distinguish between different types of heavily modified water bodies (HMWB), the establishment of a methodology for its calculation becomes important. In order to achieve this task, a methodological procedure involving the tide mean value and variable river flow...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.04.022
更新日期:2012-09-30 00:00:00
abstract::Expanded polystyrene (EPS) and corrugated paperboard (CPB) are used in many industrial applications, such as containers, shock absorbers or simply as inserts. Both materials pose two different types of environmental problems. The first is the pollution and resource consumption that occur during the production of these...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.09.003
更新日期:2005-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Autochthonous halophilic biomass was cultivated in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) aimed at analyzing the potential use of autochthonous halophilic activated sludge in treating saline industrial wastewater. Despite the high salt concentration (30 g NaCl L-1), biological oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solids ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.11.055
更新日期:2018-02-15 00:00:00
abstract::Poultry litter is known to be an excellent organic fertilizer, but the common practice of spreading litter on the surface of pastures has raised serious water-quality concerns and may limit potential benefits of litter applications. Because surface-applied litter is completely exposed to the atmosphere, runoff can tra...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.06.006
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The nitrogen footprint has been proposed as an environmental indicator to quantify and highlight how individuals, organizations, or countries contribute to nitrogen pollution. While some footprint indicators have been successful in raising awareness of environmental pressures among the public and policy-makers, they h...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.083
更新日期:2019-06-15 00:00:00
abstract::This paper assess the mechanical an environmental behaviour of cement mortars manufactured with addition of fly ash (FA) and bottom ash (BA), as partial cement replacement (10%, 25% and 35%). The environmental behaviour was studied by leaching tests, which were performed under several temperature (23 °C and 60 °C) and...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.009
更新日期:2014-01-15 00:00:00
abstract::In order to prevent salinisation of the streams of the Riverine Plain of the Murray-Darling Basin in southern Australia, evaporation basins are used to dispose of saline irrigation drainage water. Local on-farm (individual landholder) and community (shared between multiple landholders) basins are increasingly being us...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/jema.2001.0461
更新日期:2001-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The leaking of harmful organic liquids into water resources has had hazardous impacts on living organisms. Herein, we demonstrated the fabrication of hybrid sorbents using s-PPG and organosilane cross-linker. The final product exhibited high, quick absorption capacity, great reusability and excellent oil separation pe...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109911
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sub-aerial biofilm (SAB) development on solar panels was studied in São Paulo. After 6, 12 and 18 months' exposure, photovoltaic panels were covered by increasing proportions of organic matter (42%, 53% and 58%, respectively). Fungi were an important component of these biofilms; very few phototrophs were found. Major ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.03.050
更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The low cost biosynthesis of microbial lipids are an efficient feedstock to replace plant based oil for biodiesel production. The present study objective is to explore the effect of thermo-chemo-sonic pre-digestion of municipal Waste Activated Sludge (WAS) to cultivate oleaginous L. starkeyi MTCC-1400 as a model organ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.04.064
更新日期:2017-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Soil erosion is significantly increased and accelerated by unsustainable agricultural activities, resulting in one of the major threats to soil health and water quality worldwide. Quantifying soil erosion under different conservation practices is important for watershed management and a framework that can capture the ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111631
更新日期:2021-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The paper presents the application of thermal remote sensing for mapping hydrocarbon polluted sites. This has been achieved by mono-window algorithm for land surface temperature (LST) measurements, using multi-date band 6 data of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM). The emissivity, transmittance and mean atmospheric temperat...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.12.028
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The objectives of this comparison of two biophysical models of nitrogen losses were to evaluate first whether results were similar and second whether both were equally practical for use by non-scientist users. Results were obtained with the crop model STICS and the environmental model AGRIFLUX based on nitrogen loss s...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.050
更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fishing regulations such as harvest restrictions are implemented to limit the exploitation of many fish stocks and ensure the sustainability of fisheries. In Norway, inland recreational fisheries are co-managed by the government and by local riparian rights holders, meaning that Atlantic salmon Salmo salar harvest res...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.03.031
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Our research focuses on the linkage between land use planning policy and the spatial pattern of exposure to air toxics emissions. Our objective is to develop a modeling framework for assessment of the community health risk implications of land use policy. The modeling framework is not intended to be a regulatory tool ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.03.011
更新日期:2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hydrogen production by gas-phase photocatalytic splitting of Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) was investigated on four semiconductor photocatalysts including CuGa1.6Fe0.4O2, ZnFe2O3, (CdS + ZnS)/Fe2O3 and Ce/TiO2. The CdS and ZnS coated core shell particles (CdS + ZnS)/Fe2O3 shows the highest rate of hydrogen (H2) production u...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.08.039
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Wildfire has brought about ecological, economic, and social consequences that engender human responses in many parts of the world. How to respond to wildfire risk is a common challenge across the globe particularly in areas where lands are controlled by many small private owners because effective wildfire prevention a...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.06.014
更新日期:2015-08-15 00:00:00
abstract::Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are designed to remove mainly the organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus compounds and suspended solids from wastewater but are not capable of removing chemicals of human origin, such as pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs). The presence of PPCPs in wastew...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.08.025
更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Water reuse/recycle has gained much attention in recent years for environmental sustainability reasons, as well as the rising costs of fresh water and effluent treatment. Process integration techniques for the synthesis of water network have been widely accepted as a promising tool to reduce fresh water and wastewater...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.02.007
更新日期:2008-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Khanikhola watershed in Sikkim is agrarian with about 50% area under rain-fed agriculture representing the conditions of the middle mountains all over the Himalaya. The study was conducted to assess overland flow, soil loss and subsequent nutrient losses from different land uses in the watershed, and identify biot...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/jema.2000.0386
更新日期:2001-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this study, we asked the Ariaal herders of northern Kenya to answer "why, what and how" they classified landscape, and assessed and monitored the biodiversity of 10 km(2) of grazing land. To answer the "why question" the herders classified grazing resources into 39 landscape patches grouped into six landscape types...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.12.017
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Guidance values are used worldwide to regulate exposure to surface soil contamination. This analysis examines values applied to element contamination. In the United States, element guidance values have been promulgated by at least 6 federal agencies, 46 states and several regional, city, county, territorial, and auton...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.12.032
更新日期:2013-03-30 00:00:00
abstract::To ascertain the water quality for human consumption, chemical parameters such as pH, conductivity and total dissolved calcium, magnesium, iron, aluminum, zinc, copper and manganese were measured during four sampling periods (November 2002; March, May and July 2003) in drinking water wells which supply several forest ...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.01.005
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Many forests in the Alps are acknowledged for protecting objects, such as (rail) roads, against rockfall. However, there is a lack of knowledge on efficient silvicultural strategies and interventions to maintain these forests at optimal protection level. Therefore, assessment tools are required that quantify the rockf...
journal_title:Journal of environmental management
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.01.031
更新日期:2008-05-01 00:00:00