Tool Design for Electronic Product Dismantling

Jef R. Peeters; Paul Vanegas; Christof Mouton; Wim Dewulf; Joost R. Duflou

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2016.03.106

Tool Design for Electronic Product Dismantling

Jef R. Peeters
, Paul Vanegas
, Christof Mouton
, Wim Dewulf
, Joost R. Duflou

KU Leuven

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Abstract

In industrialized countries, waste electrical and electronic equipment is mostly processed in shredder-based processes, which are characterized by a low recovery of precious metals, rare earth elements and flame retardant plastics. To increase the recycling efficiency for these materials, a dismantling tool has been developed. The development process of the dismantling tool was guided by in-depth analysis of the required disassembly time for LCD TVs and laptops. The results of practical experiments demonstrate that the use of the dismantling tool enable to reduce the dismantling time for plastic housing components and PWBs with respectively 36% and 45% for LCD TVs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	466-471
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	48
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2016.03.106
State	Published - 2016
Event	23rd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2016 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 22 May 2016 → 24 May 2016

Keywords

Disassembly
Dismantling
Recycling
WEEE

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Tool Design for Electronic Product Dismantling

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