The use of air tabling and triboelectric separation for separating a mixture of three plastics

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1350-1360

  Dodbiba, G ^a   Sadaki, J ^a   Okaya, K ^a   Shibayama, A ^b   Fujita, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrostatic separation; Gravity concentration; Particle size; Recycling; Waste processing

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; MIXTURES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SEPARATION; TRIBOLOGY; WASTES;

AIR TABLING; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION; WASTE PROCESSING;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 27744498119     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2005.02.015     Document Type: Article

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