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  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Engineering

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  • Electronic waste (e-waste) presents a growing global challenge due to its volume, hazardous components, and valuable metal content.
  • Current e-waste recycling methods involve complex physicochemical reactions.
  • Optimizing these reactions is crucial for efficient resource recovery and environmental protection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the fundamental physicochemical reaction principles applied in e-waste recycling.
  • To analyze how these principles enhance metal recovery, polymer decomposition, and pollutant elimination.
  • To identify key factors, limitations, and future research directions for improved e-waste recycling.

Main Methods:

  • Discussion of photochemical, thermochemical, mechanochemical, electrochemical, and sonochemical principles.
  • Analysis of reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, free radicals, bond energy, and electrical potential.
  • Review of literature on physicochemical processes in e-waste treatment.

Main Results:

  • Photochemistry, thermochemistry, mechanochemistry, electrochemistry, and sonochemistry offer distinct mechanisms for e-waste processing.
  • These methods can be optimized using principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, and radical chemistry for better selectivity and efficiency.
  • Understanding reaction parameters allows for targeted metal recovery, polymer breakdown, and hazardous substance removal.

Conclusions:

  • Physicochemical reactions are central to effective e-waste recycling.
  • Further research into optimizing these reactions can lead to more sustainable and economically viable e-waste management strategies.
  • Future work should focus on integrating and advancing these techniques for comprehensive e-waste circularity.