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Aluminum Recycling, 2nd Edition
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Aluminum Recycling, 2nd Edition

by Mark E. Schlesinger
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
282 pages
9h 56m
English
CRC Press
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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 ...
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ISBN: 9781466570245