Gaby Ramirez

     This week we focused on preparing our salts list and setting up our experiment. I researched different salt prices for our salt lists and looked more into the chemistry of the salts. We also attended a meeting with applied separations on Thursday, where our experiment was discussed. Additionally, I made a slide presentation for […]

     Continuing building on our experiment, this week I worked on writing some pre-experiment reports. I followed a lab report template from a previous class I did work for, in order to organize the information for the experiment easier. Some pre-experiment writing I worked on include the purpose/goal of the experiment, as well as the

     On Monday we had a meeting with Professor Animesh Kundu, where we talked about ball milling. This meeting was very insightful and I was made aware of issues that can come with ball milling PCBs which I had not thought about before. This week I researched more about ball milling and look into the

     This week I looked into methods that occur in the disassembly process. I studied subcritical water debromination, and debromination efficiency on PCBs with various additives to a ball mill. On the side, I did some research on the ball mill itself and the balls that you use for the machine.      PCBs contain BFRs

     This week I continued my research by looking at electrodeposition in ionic liquids, as well as different grinding processes for PCBs. I was also able to search for more companies, authors, and researchers to contact in order to learn more about specific processes.       My research with ionic liquids continued from last week, with

     This week I focused mainly on some specific extraction methods for PCBs. The methods I looked at were in an attempt to learn more about processes that can offer recovery of metals at a cheaper rate or in a more environmentally friendly manner.       To start, I looked at electro-conductivity technology. This technique focuses