The invention belongs to the field of
recovery and utilization of waste printed circuit boards, and specially, relates to a method for separation and
recovery of
metal copper and a
glass fiber cloth in a waste
printed circuit board. The method comprises the following steps that putting an electric element-free waste circuit board into a
pyrolysis furnace to carry out
pyrolysis treatment, wherein a resin for bonding a
glass fiber cloth and a
metal layer is pyrolyzed into carbon, carrying out treatment on the residues obtained by the previous step by a two-stage smooth roll rolling technology, and carrying out screening to obtain a carbon
powder,
metal and
glass fiber concentrate. In the invention, a first-stage rolling process aims at shedding
pyrolytic carbon between a glass
fiber cloth and a metal layer, wherein each layer of the electric element-free waste circuit board is completely separated from other
layers of the electric element-free waste circuit board and carbon
powder is separated out after screening; and a second-stage rolling process aims at crushing devastatingly the glass
fiber cloth and rolling up the metal layer which is flexible into a roll, so that through screening, metal-
nonmetal separation is realized. In addition, metal and
nonmetal in a mixture obtained by the first-stage rolling process and screening can be separated out directly by an electric
separation method or a pneumatic preparation method. Through the combination of
pyrolysis and physical processes, the method provided by the invention realizes high-efficiency separation of metal and
nonmetal from a waste circuit board, and finally, realizes the purpose of eco-friendly
resource recovery of waste circuit boards.