Chapter 5

Theory and Tools of Physical Separation/Recycling

Kari Heiskanen     Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Abstract

Materials for recycling may consist of end-of-life (EOL) product streams, byproducts and waste streams from original equipment manufacturing and the production of components, and finally also rejects, byproducts and waste streams from raw-material producers. A common feature is that all consist of compounds. The elements of the compounds can be recycled only by chemical or metallurgical means.

Keywords

Drag coefficient; Grade-recovery curve; Liberation; Materials; Particle sizes; Recycled products; Recycling process; Sampling; Separability curve
Materials for recycling may consist of end-of-life (EOL) product streams, byproducts and waste ...

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