TY - JOUR
T1 - One-pot wet ball-milling for waste wire-harness recycling
AU - Kumar, Harendra
AU - Kumagai, Shogo
AU - Kameda, Tomohito
AU - Saito, Yuko
AU - Yoshioka, Toshiaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund [JPMEERF20193R01] of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan. Harendra Kumar was supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - In this study, we developed a one-pot wet ball-milling method for the recovery of highly pure copper wire, poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) coating, and diisononyl phthalate (DINP) plasticizer from waste wire harnesses. n-Butyl acetate, acetone, or ethyl acetate was used as the solvent to simultaneously extract the DINP and separate the Cu and PVC, by swelling the PVC coating and physically impacting the cables with milling balls, achieving the whole process in one pot. The swelling ratios suggested the order of solvent power for PVC as n-butyl acetate > acetone > ethyl acetate at ~ 25 °C after 80-min submersion; while on increasing temperature, this order changed to acetone > n-butyl acetate > ethyl acetate. Due to the temperature rise induced by oblique ball-to-ball and ball-to-reactor collisions during milling, acetone exhibited the best separation efficiency, achieving complete separation of 20-cm-long cables in 40-min wet milling at 25 rpm, with the simultaneous, nearly quantitative recovery of DINP. Of the recovered Cu wires, nearly ~ 90% exceeded 10-cm lengths, which facilitated quantitative recovery in the separation step. Furthermore, 100% of the de-plasticized PVC was recovered, and ~ 85% of the solvent was regenerated by distillation for re-use.
AB - In this study, we developed a one-pot wet ball-milling method for the recovery of highly pure copper wire, poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) coating, and diisononyl phthalate (DINP) plasticizer from waste wire harnesses. n-Butyl acetate, acetone, or ethyl acetate was used as the solvent to simultaneously extract the DINP and separate the Cu and PVC, by swelling the PVC coating and physically impacting the cables with milling balls, achieving the whole process in one pot. The swelling ratios suggested the order of solvent power for PVC as n-butyl acetate > acetone > ethyl acetate at ~ 25 °C after 80-min submersion; while on increasing temperature, this order changed to acetone > n-butyl acetate > ethyl acetate. Due to the temperature rise induced by oblique ball-to-ball and ball-to-reactor collisions during milling, acetone exhibited the best separation efficiency, achieving complete separation of 20-cm-long cables in 40-min wet milling at 25 rpm, with the simultaneous, nearly quantitative recovery of DINP. Of the recovered Cu wires, nearly ~ 90% exceeded 10-cm lengths, which facilitated quantitative recovery in the separation step. Furthermore, 100% of the de-plasticized PVC was recovered, and ~ 85% of the solvent was regenerated by distillation for re-use.
KW - High-purity Cu
KW - PVC recovery
KW - Waste wire harness
KW - Wet ball milling
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U2 - 10.1007/s10163-020-01163-7
DO - 10.1007/s10163-020-01163-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098731927
SN - 1438-4957
VL - 23
SP - 461
EP - 469
JO - Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
JF - Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
IS - 2
ER -