• Resources Recycling
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.9-18
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• 2017

Recently, the amount of electronic scrap is rapidly increasing due to the rapid growth of the electronics industry. Among the components of electronic scrap, the printed circuit board(PCB) is an important recycling target which includes common metals, precious metals, and rare metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, nickel and so on. In Korea, however, PCB recycling technologies are mainly commercialized by some major companies, and other process quantities are not accurately counted. According to present situation, several urban mining companies, research institutes, and universities are conducting research on recovery of valuable metals from PCBs and/or reusing them as raw materials that is different from existing commercialization process developed by major companies. In this study, we analyzed not only current status of collection/disposal process and recycling of waste PCBs in Korea but also the trend of recycling technologies in order to help resource circulation from waste PCBs become more active.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.3-11
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• 2011

Magnesium has been used as parts of vehicles, case materials of notebook PC and mobile phone, and its demand has been increasing recently. So until now, there has little magnesium scraps from the end of life vehicles or electronic parts, and most scraps has been generated from magnesium processing lines such as melting, die casting and machining. It is to review the present status of magnesium recycling. Here, domestic demand of magnesium, recycling amount and technologies used in domestic recycling companies were surveyed in recent years. In 2010, 8,840 tons of magnesium scraps were processed and used as raw materials for die casting products. The recycling ratio was estimated as 32.5%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.137.1-137.1
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• 2016

반도체, LED, 스마트 정보통신 첨단 기기에는 고가의 비철스크랩을 많이 사용하고 있으나 폐기되고 있는 비철제품을 사용후 반드시 회수되어야 한다. 수출향상을 위해서는 적합한 분리회수 기술의 확보가 필수적이다. 금은 주로 PCB나 반도체, 전자기기, 핸드백이나 가방, 액세서리 등에 주로 사용되고 있으며, 이러한 금을 회수하면 부가가치를 달성할 수 있다. 초기에는 주로 전자제품에 사용 되었으나, 이후 디자인과 기능성부품 등으로 이용이 확대되었다. 현재 국내의 금 사용량과 수요량은 매년 급증하고는 있다. 하지만 가격불안정성과 같은 자원적 문제를 갖고 있을 뿐만 아니라 전량 수입에 의존하고 있다. 국내의 비철회수 현장에서는 W-Mo합금의 박리기술을 제공해 줄 것을 요청하고 있다. 이에 이러한 고가의 스크랩을 체계적으로 회수할 수 있는 기술정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.69-79
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• 2011

Recently, magnesium alloys are in the spotlight as a promising materials in the fields of automobile parts and electronic appliances due to their merits representing light weight, high specific strength, damping property, shielding of electromagnetic wave and so on. However, magnesium alloys show a poor formability at room temperature because magnesium has HCP crystal structure with limited slip planes and strong basal texture is formed during plastic deformation process such as rolling and extrusion. Therefore, many R&D efforts have been paid for improvement of formability through grain refinement, texture control and various forming technologies. This paper is giving an overview about recent achievements on control of microstructures, forming technologies and magnesium scrap recycling.