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24 Recycling critical raw materials from waste electronic equipment On the other hand, it is known that Ta capacitors have typical Ta concentrations between 24.4% and 42.6% and a mean value of 36.7% (ZVEI 2003). A Ta percentage weight of 28% was determined from Ta capacitors in post-consumer recycling (Schöps 2011). The Ta capacitors on all the PCBs in a notebook had a total weight of 4.63 g, corresponding to a total quantity of Ta of around 1.7 g for a mean Ta content of approx. 36.7%. It should be noted that the analysis only includes capacitors with a minimum size of approx. 2 x 2 x 3 mm. The Ta content might be slightly higher if all the smaller Ta capacitors were to be included. It should also be noted that – depending on prices of raw material – Ta capacitors could be partly substituted by other types of capacitors. It can therefore be assumed that the Ta content of notebooks will vary significantly depending on the year of manufacture and device generation. 3.3 Indium Indium is present in LCD displays in the form of indium tin oxide (ITO). The available data for the indium content of displays and the uncertainties associated with it are described in more detail in Section 2.1 An indium content of 700 mg/m 2 of LCD display surface is assumed in what follows. The total indium content for a display surface of 552 cm 2 for a 14-inch LCD screen is therefore around 39 mg. 3.4 Rare earths In notebooks, rare earths are primarily used in permanent magnets and lights. The rare earths in the display lights are dealt with in detail in Section 2.2. Permanent magnets based on rare earths – also known as neodymium iron boron (NIB) magnets – are used in the following components of notebooks: � Voice coil accelerator in the hard disk drive (see Figure 10) � Spindle motor for the hard disk drive (see Figure 11) � Spindle motor for the optical drive (see Figure 11) 17 � Loudspeaker The weights of the magnets are shown in Table 19. 17 From a technological viewpoint, optical drives are divided into CD, DVD and Blu-ray drives. However, the design and principal mechanical and electronic layouts only have minor differences so that the values given here can be considered representative for all the types.
Recycling critical raw materials from waste electronic equipment Table 19: Applications and weights of rare earth magnets in notebooks Magnet application No. of magnets per notebook Voice coil accelerator for a 2.5 inch HDD Mean total weight per notebook [g] usually 2, sometimes 1 3.0 Spindle motor for HDD 1 ring magnet 1.1 Spindle motor for optical drive 1 ring magnet 1.6 Loudspeaker magnets 2 2.5 Figure 11: Rare earth magnets from the voice coil accelerator (photo Oeko-Institut) 25
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