Characterization of Various ASR Streams
1999-01-0670
03/01/1999
- Event
- Content
- About 11 million vehicles are scrapped each year in the United States. Most of these vehicles are recycled by automotive dismantlers and shredders. Presently, about 95% of the ferrous and non-ferrous metals present in vehicles (75% of the total vehicle weight) are recovered. The remainder of the scrapped vehicles (non-metal portion known as automotive shredder residue-ASR) is landfilled, generating up to 3 million tons of waste per year. In order to increase the efficiency of recovery of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the shredded vehicles, numerous developments have been made by the shredders in separation technology recently. This paper is an update of our previous paper and contains in-depth characterization of the various ASR streams.
- Pages
- 16
- Citation
- Klempner, D., Frisch, K., Pokorski, B., and Sendijarevic, V., "Characterization of Various ASR Streams," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-0670, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-0670.