WEEE recycling line Hangzhou Fuxing Group Co., China, uses mechanical recycling principles in its waste electrical & electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling technology. The plant can easily and rapidly process mono streams of different types of material, such as shredded refrigerators, computers or household appliances. The plant consists of washers, spinners, granulators, ballistic separators, air and double water shaking tables, and metal separation systems. The WEEE material is fed into a bunker with a vibrating conveyor, which delivers the materials through a metal separation system (ballistic separator) to the granulator. After the grinding step, the material goes to the air-sifter where dust and other light contamination are removed. A washing and separation step follows in the double water shaking table, where metals, glass and special plastics like flame retardants are separated. A screw conveyor then transports the material to the spinner where the flakes get dried. Finally, an air shaking table removes dust and very small particles. The recycling process has a closed water circuit and a closed air and dust system, which results in low waste disposal costs. Turnkey, customized plants can be delivered to suit different material types as well as processing capacities. Contact: Hangzhou Fuxing Group Co. Ltd., 236 Tiyuchang Road, Fuyang City, Zhejiang Province, China 311400; Tel: +86 (571) 6313 1555; Fax: +86 (571) 6313 1899. Source: www.fuxingcn.com

Process to separate lead from glass Two entrepreneurs from Manchester, the United Kingdom – Mr. Simon Greer and Mr. Clive Maudsley – have developed a new kind of electric furnace to reclaim pure lead from television glass. Nulife Glass Ltd., their new company, is now ready to start selling furnaces for processing the glass from up to 1,000 cathode ray tubes (CRTs) a day. The process can recover more than 95 per cent of the lead in the crushed glass from the CRTs of television sets and computer monitors. The lead content in CRT glass can be as high as 20 per cent, with a single 34-inch television containing as much as 1 kg of the metal as lead oxide. Mr. Greer said that the Nulife Glass furnace produces two usable products in a process that involves the passing of electric current through the molten CRT glass, permitting the lead to separate out from the glass matrix in its pure, metallic form. The molten lead and the glass are then tapped off from separate fractions. Contact: Nulife Glass Ltd., Ruskin Glass Centre, Wollaston Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 4HF, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (1384) 399 420; Fax: +44 (1384) 399 401 E-mail: info@nulifeglass.com Source: www.letsrecycle.co

Implosion and X-rays for CRT recycling MDJ Light Brothers, the recycling firm in the United Kingdom, has set up an industrial ‘imploder’ to break up glass from CRTs and an X-ray sorting system to separate funnel glass from screen glass. The company believes its system, installed in its new CRT processing facility, can ultimately achieve a materials recovery rate above 90 per cent by weight, sorting around 15,000 t of CRT glass each year. The system involves first manually dismantling televisions and monitors to separate the CRT from other components, including plastic and copper parts, and the electron gun. CRTs are then fed into a Krysteline GP15 imploder, which sends a sudden burst of energy into the glass to effectively shatter it. The machine is based on the same principle in which high musical notes shatter wine glasses, and can process 30 tph of material. The resulting grains have no sharps, and can vary in size from 400 µm to 15 cm. To separate the leaded funnel glass from the higher-value screen glass, the company is using a Varicon-X machine from the German manufacturers S+S GmbH. The machine identifies the different types of glass based on different X-ray absorption rates, and instructs the separation system to direct the various glass grains into the appropriate hoppers. Source: www.letsrecycle.com