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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
John S Hall, Melbourne, AU;
Michael Scott McRae-Williams, Ballarat, AU;
Kenneth James Heater, Westerville, OH (US);
Robert Mark Hodge, Melbourne, AU;
Assignee:
METSS.org, LLC, Westerville, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B 7/00 ;
Abstract
A process for recycling an electronic scrap material comprising a metal provided on a polymeric substrate, which method comprises: milling flaked electronic scrap material with a bead impact material in the presence of water to produce flakes of cleaned polymeric substrate; adding water to the milled material and separating the flakes of cleaned polymeric substrate from metal-containing material; dewatering and drying the flakes of cleaned polymeric substrate; and treating the metal-containing material to recover the metal.