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Ecomation - WEEE, Electronic Waste
WEEE includes a long list of harmful chemicals, such as mercury, lead, brominated flame retardants etc. The most common way to separate the valuable metals for recycling is mechanical recycling or by capturing valuable metals by chemical dissolvement. What is often foreseen is that most of the electronic waste is plastics. Therefore, the approach is to take care of the full mass of the waste and put the material back to use. Harmful substances are separated partly with the char and other such as the Mercury separated by distillation. Ecomation’s solution takes care of the full mass of the waste. Also, all harmful chemicals are separated without the risk of entering the environment.
- Continues operation 24/7 (no cooling and reheating cycles)
- Zero emissions, no chimney (closed processes)
- Energy efficiency (250 kwh/processed Mt)
- Safety (maximum 5mbar operational pressure, no opening of equipment releasing oxygen to process)
- Process scalability
- Automated operation (minimized staff costs)
- Profitability (ROI commonly under 4 years)
Ecomation has since 2007 developed solutions to capture valuable raw materials from urban waste, with dry distillation (pyrolysis) technology. The challenge of the traditional processes has been safety, equipment life span, energy efficiency, emissions and operational profitability. These main challenged has been addressed through extensive development, testing, trial and errors, resulting in a number of global patents and prestigious awards.