Palladium recovery from 1.4kg ceramic capacitors

Smelting 1.4kg MLCCs using lead and silver as collector metals, followed by cupellation and silver - palladium separation.
#palladium #palladiumrecovery #pallladiumrefining #owltech

[christiaanschutte]

This was so amateurly done but love it just shows you you don't need the high tech luxuries to do something just logic and ingenuity. Well done man!

[rookierollhunter]

WOW!!! That Palladium sure doesn't want to melt very well. Still came close to being pure. Great video!

[LISA_]

1.OZ of palladium is £2000.00 as of sept 21, so the blob he made was worth £1000.00

[NOBOX]

I watch this channel during meals, the videos are long and i like that, i dont have time to do any thing but eat on my breaks no time to click threw videos so i consume information as i consume my food by watching OwlTech.

[nelsondiaz]

You can avoid adding the lead and just dissolve the ceramic in hydrofloric acid all the silica and ceramic will dissolve in the acid leaving the palladium as a powder ! Saving a few steps

[Addmaster]

I dropped some questions, however, mate, amazing job, thanks for sharing

[alwayswatching]

The Crystals were as beautiful as the work put in thank u

[derkrebskandidat]

Wow...37Min.48Sec. without one ad. There is a 👍🏻 for that alone!!

[christopherleubner]

Burn> Ball mill to fine dust> treat dust with nitric acid> Filter and separate silver from palladium using HCl> Filter off AgCl and distil off nitric acid> Separate Pd from CuFe etc using ammonia, pd forms a complex of (NH2)PdCl2 that precipitates from the chilled solution.❤

[UltimateCastGuides]

Absolutely amazing process, people like you were called Wizards 300 years ago.

[bentationfunkiloglio]

Just over 1% yield WRT original source material weight. Pretty decent payday, over $1000 USD, assuming capacitors didn't cost much.

[solvated_photon]

11:51 when I’ve done this before I skipped directly to nitric acid dissolving after pulverizing the capacitors. I’m a bit confused why all the smelting steps had to be taken.

[NOBOX]

You have a magnificent channel, the precious thing you have to offer is wisdom indeed, finer then even the gold you show us how to recover

[robmorris]

I usually run when I hear robot voices on vids, but I stayed when I saw your hands. They look like mine
Well done, good video.

[sopot]

I love how humans change scraps into beatiful shiny metals

[Huntrezz]

Fun fact : this metal is even more expensive than gold

[JaredKaragen]

Friendly suggestions:
be sure to filter out ALL silver chloride or it will never have a shiny surface after melting.... silver contamination will be all over the surface of your metal otherwise.
Once you do the silver chloride filtering; you should be able to then add some sulfuric acid to the palladium solution to precipitate any remaining lead as lead sulfate. Filter again.
Both of these contaminants will leave that kind of surface look; almost taking away any possibility of it naturally being shiny.

[zavalondc]

wow 🤩🤩🤩 15g of this worth at least 900€!!!! good job!!!

[OnsloVest]

Back to back videos, appreciate the effort mate

[sabotage]

Tony Stark filming the first Iron Man suit being built in a cave.