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Strategy and Development of Recycling Technology for End-of-Life Vehicles(ELVs) in Germany

  • Kim, Jae-Ceung
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.16-36
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    • 2005
  • The quantity of passenger cars in industrial countries has been significantly increased in recent years. According to prognoses, this tendency is likely to continue in the forthcoming future. As a direct consequence, an increase of End-of Life-Vehicles (ELV) will confront us with the problem of "ELV-Recycling". In order to cope with this situation, the European regulation for the treatment of End-of-Life-Vehicles (09/2000) has been transferred to national law in Germany (ELV-Regulation from 1 July 2002). The long term aim is to reduce residues from the ELV-treatment to less than 5 wt% from 30 wt% within the next 10 years (2015). For that reason, there is a need for innovative and more efficient recycling techniques tailored to future materials in automobiles. The design process at automotive industry is continuously changing due to the strong demand on optional equipment and new technical solutions for fuel saving. Light materials, such as aluminum and plastics, consequently become more important and cause a decrease of ferrous metals. Since plastic materials are often used as compounds, a separation into initial material types by means of mechanical recycling methods is not possible. For that reason, efficient recycling can only be realized by introducing recycling-friendly car designs. In the end an integrated approach of auto makers and recycling industry is of decisive significance for the fulfillment of future regulations.

Current Technology Trends Analysis on the Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Fluorescent Substance in the Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps of Waste Flat Panel Displays (폐디스플레이 CCFL에 존재하는 형광체 내 희토류 원소 회수 기술 동향 분석)

  • Kang, Leeseung;Shin, Dongyoon;Lee, Jieun;Ahn, Joong Woo;Hong, Hyun-Seon
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2015
  • Flat panel display devices are mainly used as information display devices in the 21st century. The worldwide waste flat panel displays are expected at 2-3 million units but most of them are land-filled for want of a proper recycling technology More specifically, rare earth metals of La and Eu are used as fluorescent materials of Cold Cathode Flourscent Lamp(CCFL)s in the waste flat panel displays and they are critically vulnerable and irreplaceable strategic mineral resources. At present, most of the waste CCFLs are disposed of by land-filling and incineration and proper recovery of 80-plus tons per annum of the rare earth fluorescent materials will significantly contribute to steady supply of them. A dearth of Korean domestic research results on recovery and recycling of rare earth elements in the CCFLs prompts to initiate this status report on overseas research trends and noteworthy research results in related fields.

Treatment and Recovery of Valuable Materials from Aluminum Dross by Leaching (침출에 의한 알루미늄 드로스의 처리 및 유용성분의 회수)

  • Nguyen Thi, Thuy Nhi;Lee, Man Seung
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2017
  • White and black dross are resulted from the recycling of aluminum. There are no established processes to recover valuable materials from black dross. Hydrometallurgical processes seem to be suitable for the treatment of aluminum dross. The salts in the black dross are recovered by dissolving with water. The residues are treated by either alkaline or acid leaching. Although the leaching rate of alumina by NaOH is lower than that by acid, its intermediates are more suitable to the production of alumina-based materials. The future direction for the treatment and recovery of valuable materials from aluminum dross is discussed.

A Fundamental Study in order to Utilize Waste Glasses Powder as Admixtures of Repair Mortar (폐유리 미분말을 보수모르타르의 혼합재료로 활용하기 위한 기초적 연구)

  • Choi, Yun-Wang;Jung, Moon-Yung;Kang, Hyun-Jin;Jung, Woo-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2006.05b
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    • pp.341-344
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    • 2006
  • The waste glasses among plenty of wastes put out lately is limited in recycling and reusing, and the phenomenon hasn't been improved quite much. And besides, the recycling rate shows the 70.1%, relatively low. These waste glasses is currently used for road pavement materials, interior and exterior decorating materials in architecture, road painting meterials, auxiliary lagging materials for heat-retaining, coldness-retaining and soundproofing, and glass bottles. 30% of waste glasses powder is, however, not reused pratically. Therefore, in this research, we operated some tests including flow of mortar mixed with waste glasses powder, setting time, rheology and compressive strength to utilize waste glasses powder put out in the precess of recycling for admixture for repair mortar. As a result, we've found out that we can utilize waste glasses powder for admixture for repair mortar.

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