Proceedings of the IEEK Conference (대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2001.10a
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- Pages.592-596
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- 2001
Jig Separation of Plastic Waste Used in Copy Machines
- Tsunekawa, Masami (Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University) ;
- Naoi, Banryu (Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University) ;
- Takubo, Tetsuo (Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University) ;
- Hirajima, Tsuyoshi (Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University) ;
- Hiroyoshi, Naoki (Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University) ;
- Otani, Masaru (Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute) ;
- Miyamoto, Masahiro (Nihon Resources Technology Co. Ltd.) ;
- Ito, Masazumi (Agglo Technic Co. Ltd.)
- Published : 2001.10.01
Abstract
A TACUB jig was applied to separate waste plastics [polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET)] used in copy machine. The effect of water pulsation including amplitude and frequency on the separation performance was investigated for the feeds containing two or three plastics. Good results are obtained under suitable conditions. Grades of 99.8% PS,99.3% ABS, and 98.6% PET are recovered as the products in the upper, middle and bottom layers respectively. Based on these results, a processing plant fer recycling of plastics from scrapped copy machines is now under construction.