
110 Aluminum Recycling
AUTOMOTIVE SCRAP
Figure 6.2 shows a traditional owsheet for the recovery of aluminum from scrapped
automobiles (Cui and Roven, 2010). This process has changed considerably over the
years, in part due to the increasing importance of recovering the aluminum in the
hulk. The development of new sorting technology described in the previous chapter
will likely change this owsheet more in the future.
As mentioned in Chapter 3, the rst step in recycling an automobile is the dis-
mantling process. This can be divided into three parts (Bebelaar and Dalmijn, 2007;
Paul, 2007). The rst is pretreatment, which is the removal of those ...