Review on recovering precious metals from wasted circuit board by bio-hydrometallurgy technology

The quantity of circuit board produced and abandoned has increased with the development of electronics industry. The characteristics of pyrometallurgical recovery, mechanical recovery and wet recovery, such as low recovery ratio, high cost and environmental pollution fails to recover the precious metals from wasted circuit board. This article discusses the feasibility and economic value of precious metals recovery from wasted circuit board by bio -hydrometallurgy by the sequence of dismantling -broken -biological leaching -follow -up treatment. The physiological and biochemical properties of the metallurgical microbials at the medium temperature, moderate thermophilic and moderate thermophilic are introduced respectively. The application prospect of the recovering precious metals from wasted circuit board by bio -hydrometallurgy technology is forecasted.