Using sieving and pretreatment to separate plastics during end-of-life vehicle recycling

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 920-924

  Stagner, Jacqueline A ^a   Sagan, Barsha ^a   Tam, Edwin K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

comminution; cryogenic freezing; end of life vehicle; plastics; Shredder residue; waste management

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC FREEZING; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICLES; END-OF-LIFE VEHICLES; FACTORIAL-DESIGN STUDY; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SHREDDER RESIDUES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

COMMINUTION; CRYOGENICS; ELASTOMERS; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); HEADLIGHTS; MATERIALS HANDLING; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PLASTICS; RECOVERY; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

RECYCLING;

ADHESIVE AGENT; LIQUID NITROGEN; PLASTIC;

AUTOMOBILE; COMMINUTION; FREEZING; MILL; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTIC WASTE; RECYCLING; SIEVING; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CAR; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURE; FACTORIAL DESIGN; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE;

COMMINUTION; CRYOGENIC FREEZING; END-OF-LIFE VEHICLE; PLASTICS; SHREDDER RESIDUE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

FREEZING; MOTOR VEHICLES; NITROGEN; PLASTICS; RECYCLING; TEMPERATURE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84883671491     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X13490982     Document Type: Article

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