Electronics Knowhow

Recycling electronic equipment helps reduce pollution that would normally be emitted while manufacturing a new product and the need to extract valuable and limited virgin resources. Recycling electronics is good for the environment and our local communities.

When people just throw away large volumes of electronics it is a waste of very valuable recyclable resources. Most components in electrical equipment, including the hazardous components, can be safely recycled through proper recycling companies. Disposal is not the answer.

It is always a much safer idea to ensure you pass computers and other electronics need to be properly handled by a responsible recycling company rather than being sent to a waste disposal company.

There are a number of companies these days that will pick up electrical equipment without charge. If more and more companies start to provide this free service, people will think about recycling there electrical equipment more.

How do we dispose of this technology? Computer monitors, televisions, circuit boards, and other electronics contain excess heavy metals so they cannot be disposed of in the trash. These also include mercury, bromide, flame retardants, and importantly lead, which threaten ground water if left in landfills. Lead is also a main component of monitors and television screens.

Manufacturers and recyclers are analyzing dozens of approaches to identify cost-effective, environmental methods of managing end of life electronics. An important aspect of these analyses is the identification of the environmental regulations-particularly those under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and its state counterparts-that would apply. Manufacturers are leading the way on this issue.

The emergence of electronic transformer is regarded as a revolution in the manufacturing industry of high voltage electrical apparatus. Its digital output and networking connection make the device safer and more environmental protective, which are also benefit for the intelligent of the entire electrical power transmission and distribution system. There are many characteristics of this technology: firstly, the small size replaces the original large size; secondly, the digital transmission replaced the simulation output, which is easy to process the connection and intelligent of the follow-up network; thirdly, transmitting the signal by optical fiber cable is anti-interference; fourthly, the industrial Ethernet is used by the electronic transformer to measure and share, thus a large number of electric cables can be saved.

The electronic transformer has changed the original way of assemble application, for instance, the microelectronic devices are removed outside, nearing the high tension wires and circuit breaker. The device must be disturbed by the bad weather and irregular electromagnetism. There are so many challenges in the application of this new technology, such as the interference protection, error control of communication and the reliable power source. In order to solve the above problems, we should perfect the related standards and promote the research of electronic transformer to the direction of high reliability and stability.

There are some research directions of the new technology in the future, I will list below: first is the passivity of sensor. The single ECT will develop towards the passivity, such as getting out of the dependence of power source, supplying the power by itself. Thus the service life of the device can reach more than ten years. Secondly, the electronic transformer can combine with many different devices like transformer, isolating switch, because of t he low power and small size. These different combinations are able to save cost and space. These devices also can be complementary with each other. The third direction is standardization. The electronic transformer made by different factories can be exchanged easily with some standards. The related integrated circuit is WE9187.