TY - JOUR
AU - Brockmeier, Norman F.
AB - Abstract Each year, about 11 million tons of metals are recovered in the United States from about 10 million discarded automobiles. The recovered metals account for about 75 percent of the total weight of the discarded vehicles. The balance of the material, known as shredder residue, amounts to about three million tons annually and is currently landfilled. The residue contains a diversity of potentially recyclable materials, including polyurethane foams, iron oxides, and certain thermoplastics. This article discusses a process under development at Argonne National Laboratory to separate and recover the recyclable materials from this waste stream. The process consists essentially of two stages. First, a physical separation is used to recover the foams and the metal oxides, followed by a chemical process to extract certain thermoplastics. The status of the technology and the process economics are reviewed here.
TI - Recovering recyclable materials from shredder residue
JO - JOM
DO - 10.1007/BF03222556
DA - 1994-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/recovering-recyclable-materials-from-shredder-residue-dD4kvxL3R8
SP - 40
EP - 43
VL - 46
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -