TY - JOUR
AU - Zhang, Fu-Shen
AB - Brominated flame retardants contained in electrical and electronic waste plastic are toxic to both humans and the environment. Most disposal technologies for brominated flame retardants are environmentally unfriendly. Here, a novel solvothermal process was designed to recover tetrabromobisphenol A, a typical brominated flame retardant, from waste computer housing plastic. The plastic waste was treated by the solvothermal process followed by vacuum rotary evaporation. Results show a tetrabromobisphenol A recovery efficiency of 78.9 %, and a purity of 95.6 %. The stability of tetrabromobisphenol A during the solvothermal process was confirmed by nuclear magnetic resonance. Kinetics showed that diffusion across the polymer layer controlled recovery. We conclude that the novel solvothermal process is a promising green way to recover tetrabromobisphenol A from electrical and electronic waste plastic.
TI - Tetrabromobisphenol A recovery from computer housing plastic by a new solvothermal process
JF - Environmental Chemistry Letters
DO - 10.1007/s10311-014-0452-8
DA - 2014-01-24
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/tetrabromobisphenol-a-recovery-from-computer-housing-plastic-by-a-new-XeWeMLw86S
SP - 347
EP - 352
VL - 12
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -