Assuring continued recyclability of automotive aluminum alloys: Grouping of wrought alloys by color, x-ray absorption and chemical composition-based sorting

TMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 3-17

  Gesing, Adam ^a   Berry, Larry ^a   Dalton, Ron ^a   Wolanski, Richard ^a  

^a Huron Valley Steel Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPOSITION; ETCHING; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; SERVICE LIFE; X RAYS;

AUTOMOTIVE ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION BASED SORTING; WROUGHT ALLOYS; X RAY ABSORPTION IMAGING;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0036439548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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