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Recovery of Selected Engineering Plastics from Automotive Shredder Residue Using Skin Flotation Technology
Technical Paper
1999-01-0663
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Recovery of metals from automobile shredder residue (ASR) is currently being applied to over 11 million end of life vehicles (ELV) in North America. However, most plastics from these vehicles become landfill. The Vehicle Recycling Partnership (VRP), an effort of Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors, as part of the USCAR initiative, has been conducting research to recover plastics from this ASR feed stream. The VRP has been working with Recovery Plastics International (RPI), to investigate automated plastic separations. RPI has been developing processes that would allow for fully automated recovery of target engineering plastics. The portion of the process developed for separating the engineering plastics is called skin flotation. This technology can separate engineering plastics even if the materials have the exact same density. A pilot production line has been set up for processing a variety of commercial ASR materials at RPI in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA). This paper presents the results on plastic material recovery, separation processing, projected economics, material recovery yields, and purity levels.
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Winslow, G., Kobler, R., Duranceau, C., Caron, J. et al., "Recovery of Selected Engineering Plastics from Automotive Shredder Residue Using Skin Flotation Technology," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-0663, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-0663.Data Sets - Support Documents
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