When dealing with electronic waste, one of the many issues is the difficulty to scale up the separation of the components for the circuit boards in order to reuse the chips in other circuits. A continuous flow process with minimal human intervention is required.

The devices in the drawing are inspired by a continuous wave soldering machine in a fablab I visited, which could solder hundred of circuit boards per hour. I mainly flipped the boards upside down on the wire-loop conveyor belt so that the components can fall freely when desoldered.

EDIT : One alternative solution is circuit boards that dissolve in hot water, leaving behind the components and copper traces.