Abstract:
Methods including drying a crude mineral composition comprising surface active minerals ("SAM") and gangue, grinding the crude mineral composition to produce a crude mineral particulate composition comprising SAM particulates and gangue particulates, contacting the crude mineral particulate composition with a quaternary ammonium surfactant to form organically modified surface active mineral ("OMSAM") particulates, grinding the crude mineral particulate composition that was contacted with the quaternary ammonium surfactant, and separating a portion of the OMSAM particulates from the gangue particulates using an air classifier.
Abstract:
A system for eliminating unexploded ordnance from a mixture. The system includes a separation plant, including a crusher, a magnetic separation station, and a screen plant. The crusher reduces the size of pieces in the mixture, the magnetic separator separates pieces containing a significant amount of ferrous metal, and the screen separates small pieces from larger pieces. The fine output of the screen is composed of pieces that are sufficiently small to pose little hazard; they may be further subjected to heat treatment. Large pieces containing ferrous metal, or large pieces containing nonferrous metal, may be explosive and are transported, using an unmanned machine, to an inspection plant where they are sorted and where any unexploded ordnance is identified and disposed of. The separation plant is sufficiently distant from the inspection plant that an explosion at the separation plant does not pose a hazard to personnel at the inspection plant.
Abstract:
The invention provides method to recover, by means of froth flotation, a desired metal value from a feedstock containing it. In a comminution step, the feedstock is comminuted using comminuting media of an iron and chrome steel alloy comprising from 12% to 30% chrome. In a conditioning step, the feedstock material is contacted with thiourea and/or oxalic acid as primary flotation reagents. The conditioning step comprises the comminution step, in which a quantity of the primary flotation reagent/s being added and preconditioned comminuted feedstock material being obtained. The conditioning step also comprises an optional conditioning finishing step, in which a mixture of the preconditioned comminuted feedstock material and a liquid is subjected to stirring and with conditioned comminuted feedstock material being obtained from the finishing step. In a recovery step, at least some of the desired metal value is recovered by froth flotation from the preconditioned or conditioned feedstock.
Abstract:
Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft eine Recyclinganlage für Gipskarton, welche drei Walzenzerkleinerer (7, 17, 22) sowie drei Siebe (9, 19, 24) aufweist. Insbesondere werden aufgrund verschiedener Rotationsgeschwindigkeiten der Walzen eines Walzenzerkleinerers (7, 17, 22) die Gipskartonagenstücke zerrieben, so dass sich der Gips von dem Papier bzw. der Kartonage ablöst.
Abstract:
Herein proposed is a plant (1) and a method for the recovery of plastic materials of post-consumption materials, such as vehicle bumpers and tanks, in the plant (1), downstream of the volumetric reduction grinder (2), there being provided an intermediate grinder (6) and the washing vat (9) and the centrifuge (12) additionally being arranged upstream of the windmill/granulator (14), while in the proposed method there is provided an intermediate grinding step arranged upstream of the grinding step/granulation and a subsequent washing step and separation in the vat of the parts of foreign materials through the difference of specific weight, including ferrous material, non-ferrous material and the alloys thereof, of the material made of intermediate size, before the grinding/granulation step through windmill/granulator, wherein the washing and centrifugation water is subjected to a continuous purification cycle. In order to increase the productivity of the plant and reducing the maintenance times, the conveying means (4, 8, 13) for transporting the material are provided mobile, mounted on swivel wheels (5b).
Abstract:
The invention provides method to recover, by means of froth flotation, a desired metal value from a feedstock containing it. In a comminution step, the feedstock is comminuted using comminuting media of an iron and chrome steel alloy comprising from 12% to 30% chrome. In a conditioning step, the feedstock material is contacted with thiourea and/or oxalic acid as primary flotation reagents. The conditioning step comprises the comminution step, in which a quantity of the primary flotation reagent/s being added and preconditioned comminuted feedstock material being obtained. The conditioning step also comprises an optional conditioning finishing step, in which a mixture of the preconditioned comminuted feedstock material and a liquid is subjected to stirring and with conditioned comminuted feedstock material being obtained from the finishing step. In a recovery step, at least some of the desired metal value is recovered by froth flotation from the preconditioned or conditioned feedstock.
Abstract:
A presente invenção refere-se a um processo e a um sistema para a eliminação da expansibilidade da escória de aciaria que compreende um britador primário (3) para redução dos fragmentos em função de sua granulometria; um separador magnético (4) para remoção de fragmentos metálicos superiores a uma determinada granulometria (5); secador rotativo (6) para secagem da escória isenta de fragmentos metálicos maiores; moi- nho impactor (11) para desagregar e fragmentar escórias maiores a uma granulometria predeterminada; um classificador (12) para aero classificação e arraste de partículas finas e superfinas; resfriador (17) de partículas de escória superiores a uma granulometria predeterminada por meio da troca de calor e a remoção das partículas finas e superfinas não coletadas pelo moinho impactor (11); peneira vibratória (21) provida de dois ou mais decks (23, 24, e 25) com telas de dimensões predeterminadas; separadores mag- néticos de baixa intensidade (26, 27 e 28) com geração de frações de escória não magnética isenta de ferro metálico e de monóxido de ferro e de frações magnéticas compostas por ferro metálico e monóxido de ferro; e sepa- radores magnéticos de baixa intensidade (35, 36 e 37) para reprocessamento das frações magnéticas com a geração de concentrado de com alto teor de ferro metálico e um produto com alta concentração de monóxido de ferro.
Abstract:
Processing copper wire concentrate produced from processing ASR to generate a bare copper product. The disclosed systems and methods employ processes that remove constituents from the copper wire concentrate that can damage conventional chopping equipment. After removing the constituents that can damage conventional chopping equipment, the process employs a grinder to grind the remaining copper wire to liberate the bare copper metal from the insulation material.
Abstract:
A method and system for processing a supply of post-consumer scrap linear low density or low density polyethylene film into near-virgin quality blown film product. The method includes tearing the supply of film in a shredder, wherein the surface area of the film is exposed, including delaminating the film. The torn supply of film is washed in a water bath including a surfactant. The film is agitated in the bath containing the surfactant wherein contaminants on the film are removed from the film. The washed film is ground into smaller pieces and additional washing of the ground film in a rotating friction washer and a sink float tank occurs wherein additional contaminants are removed from the film. The ground film is then dried and compacted without addition of water into granulated objects of near-virgin quality blown film product.