material stream Articles
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E-waste in China: feast and famine
China’s certified recyclers of electronic and electrical waste - or e-waste - are being starved of raw material. Instead, a large proportion of this material stream is being captured by low-cost dismantling units which are seemingly unburdened by environmental considerations. However, environmental consciousness is growing in China - not least because of major legislative developments in ...
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Radiation detection market is HOT
The number of radiation incidents has increased over recent years; at the same time, the issue has been climbing up the scrap processing agenda, with sales of detection equipment scaling new heights. This article looks at latest trends in radiation detection and at the growing sophistication of the equipment designed to uncover radioactive sources in scrap metal and other material ...
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Material fl ow monitoring with FlowJam - Case Study
Application A refiner of kaolin and crystal quartz extracts raw materials in an opencast mine. In the quartz sand recovery process the extracted material is washed and dried. In the next process step the material is milled. With the help of a downstream sieve the required grain size is achieved. After the milling and screening process, the material is transported by conveyor belts and feeds into ...
By ENVEA
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Comparing Screeners for Bulk Material Handling
Choosing the right screener for your process and material is important to ensure your manufacturing system runs efficiently with as little downtime as possible. In this article, we’ll explore several types of screeners and the applications for which they’re most suited. Screeners we’ll discuss include gyratory screens, flip-flow screens, trommel screens, grizzly screens, finger ...
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Energy and material management based on a fuzzy-Petri net approach
In modern production systems, materials and different forms of energy are provided, converted, stored and transported. Environmental impacts can be identified at any stage of the energy and material flow process. Due to the fact that production units and processes are interconnected with energy and material flows, it is of special interest to implement production control policies, which control ...
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MaxxFlow HTC replaces buffle plate - Case Study
Application A mining company extracts raw materials and processes them into fertilizers. During the production process one of the companies products is enriched with an other component. To guarantee a constant quality, a rotary valve doses this component, coming from a silo, into the main material stream. For the continuous measuring of the mass fl ow so far a buffl e plate system was used. High ...
By ENVEA
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Mass flow measurement with SolidFlow 2.0 - Case Study
Application In an opencast mine, brown coal with a very high content of wax is mined. From this coal, raw montan wax is obtained in different process steps. Therefore, the coal is crushed, dried and impinged with an environmentally friendly solvent to separate the wax from the coal. The acquired montan wax is transported into an evaporation system, where it evaporizes in several stages. After ...
By ENVEA
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Impact lead the way in paper and glass separation
Impact Air Systems was recently contacted by one of the UK's leading recycling led waste management companies to help them improve the process following the recent introduction of domestic glass into the material stream. The company involved have requested to remain anonymous, but currently operate 6 large scale operations in the UK. We were called to their facility in the West Midlands to ...
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Impact supports the plastic recycling industry to improve product quality
Impact Air Systems were recently contacted by a well established metal recycling company who had installed a plastic recycling facility at their 32 acre site in Lincolnshire. Blue Sky Plastics Ltd installed a plastic recycling system to recycle household rigid plastic material and plastic car components and needed to further improve the quality of the HDPE and PP granules by removing the ...
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Neue Herbold Pulverizers / pulverizing systems
NEUE HERBOLD ZM series pulverizers (pulverisers) are designed for the pulverizing of mid-hard, brittle to high impact plastics that require the final material to be in powder form. Typical applications are PE, PVC, PC and other various types of plastics. The required pulverizer (pulverisers) input material must be in a granulate form with a maximum size of 6-8 mm (1/4-5/16 in.). The ZM ...
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Casepak Project 26 mtph Dry Recyclables System Leicester, UK - Case Study
BHS designed, manufactured and installed a highly automated, dual-function sorting system for Casepak at its new Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Leicester. The system start up was in September, 2011. “This is a major milestone for Casepak,” said Mark Smith, Managing Director at Casepak, at the facility's grand opening in January, 2012. “Since the MRF became operational in ...
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VSEP concentrates pigment additives to 70% solids and provides quick payback
A manufacturer of membrane filtration and solids separation equipment, New Logic International Inc., (New Logic) of Emeryville, CA has now several new and existing projects with major high solid inorganic chemical producers for the use of its technology. New Logic’s Vibratory Shear Enhanced Process (VSEP) is being used for the dewatering of high solid inorganic chemical streams and recovery of ...
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Case study - IMOG – BELGIUM - Optimised and automated separation of PMD material in existing sorting line
Customer IMOG is an intermunicipal public sanitary authority in South West Flanders. IMOG ensures the integrated waste management for 11 municipalities with well over 230,000 inhabitants. At IMOG’s PMD sorting facility more than 4,000 tonnes/year of separately collected mixed light packaging material (PMD) and PP material are processed. Situation IMOG was looking for a solution to ...
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CP Group earns MRF of the month with advanced disposal GA
Serving metro Atlanta and located in Forsyth County, Georgia, one of the fastest growing areas in the U.S., the brand-new materials recovery facility in Alphretta is the 10th for Advanced Disposal, which operates throughout the Southeast. The $5 million, 34,000 square-foot facility built by the CP Group will process single-stream materials collected curbside from approximately 100,000 households ...
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Pay the Landfill or Pay Yourself
Construction & demolition (C&D) recycling systems and operations have continued to grow in sophistication & mechanization with each passing year. Single line systems largely gave way to dual lines, magnets were added everywhere possible, air (density) separators became a staple, game-changing ballistic separators gained increased traction, and robots began to show up to work on ...
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Heavy Duty Single Shaft Shredder for Sale
GSD Series Single Shaft Shredders are heavy duty, reduction machines specifically designed for shredding a wide variety of untreated waste material streams down into either coarse or medium sized fractions. The powerful, wear resistant machine structure is well suited to demanding recycling tasks. Application Plastics – Mouldings, Purging/Lump, Profiles, Films etc. Timber/Wood – ...
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Solid Waste to Engineered Fuel Solution
Engineered fuel is a kind of alternative fuel produced by processing and blending construction and demolition material, and/or select industrial and/or commercial byproduct material streams including: plastic, paper, paper mill contraries, paper fiber, cardboard, textiles, carpet, and rubber. Waste to Engineered Fuel Processing pre-screening of potential customers' material before it is received; ...
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Athens Services Project - 70-tph Mixed Material System Sun Valley, California - Case Study
Athens Services' state-of-the-art Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Sun Valley, California was custom designed by Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) for and represents a significant move by Athens to automate its processing of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), multi-family, single family and commercial material streams in Southern California. The system features a combination of BHS screen, Nihot air and ...
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A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS
The automation of processes through robotics is not only a trend with a growing presence in the industrial world, but a long-distance race that most industries are joining. In a couple of decades, maybe less, robots and programmed and automated tasks will replace human tasks.The perfect combination of this cocktail, however, is still the human component, as it has a competitive advantage: ...
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Adressing the conflicting priorities of waste reduction and energy development
Many valuable materials are currently being discarded rather than used productively, and more needs to be done to maximize the value we recover from material streams. Unfortunately, building energy recovery facilities to handle the existing waste load creates a requirement to continue generating the same amount of waste, creating potential problems for plans to reduce waste. Waste is the fuel for ...
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