Reusing circuits

1995/12/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Elektronika

Daimler Benz technicians accelerate the process of reusing printed circuits and successfully use the new technology it markets. If the expected deadlines are met, next January the passage of the laboratory will be exceeded and can be presented on the market.

As we know, the use of printed circuits and integrated circuits is increasingly widespread. Computers, cold rooms, televisions or radios, all of these household appliances use printed circuits. Since the duration of consumption of these objects is decreasing, electronic waste is an increasingly serious problem. And we say serious because the circuits have many polluting elements and all of them are released when the complete treatment of the part is performed.

The contribution of the new experimental technique that is being used in Germany consists in the reuse of the elements that compose it once the average time of use of the circuit has ended. So far, the separation of these elements has been the biggest obstacle, but the new technology has allowed low temperature distribution. The new technology used by Daimler Benz technicians will account for half of the waste generated by the circuits. It seems that the costs of the reuse process will also be in half.