Strategy to improve recycling yield of aluminium cansShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: E3S Web of Conferences / [ed] R.H. Setyobudi, F.D. Suprianto, M. Mel, O. Anne, P. Soni, T. Turkadze, Y. Jani & Z. Vincēviča-Gaile, EDP Sciences, 2019, Vol. 130, p. 1-8, article id 01033Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Millions of canned drinks are consumed everyday globally and their wastes create an enviromental issue. Fortunately, the cans are made from aluminium (Al) so that it can be recycled. There are two main keypoints existing during the recycling process of Al cans, i.e. the aluminium loss or low Al-yield and low recycling yield. This work outlines the strategies to improve the recycling perfomance for Al beverage cans, i.e. by adding drossing flux, applying improved melting strategy, and cans decoating prior to melting. Drossing flux was added to assist the detachment of Al from the slag. Another improved melting strategy was worked out by decreasing exposure time cans to the furnace atmosphere during melting. All those above strategies result in an increase of recycle yield in a range of 4 % to 5 %.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
EDP Sciences, 2019. Vol. 130, p. 1-8, article id 01033
Series
E3S Web of Conferences, E-ISSN 2267-1242
Keywords [en]
Aluminium alloy, Beverage packaging, Drossing flux, Melting strategy, Aluminum alloys, Beverages, Integrated circuits, Melting, Slags, Aluminium cans, Beverage cans, Decoating, Exposure-time, Furnace atmosphere, Keypoints, Perfomance, Recycling process, Recycling
National Category
Materials Engineering
Research subject
Natural Science, Environmental Science; Technology (byts ev till Engineering)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-94297DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/201913001033Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85075880596OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-94297DiVA, id: diva2:1429982
Conference
The 1st International Conference on Automotive, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Engineering (IC-AMME 2018), Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, September 26-28, 2018
2020-05-132020-05-132020-05-13Bibliographically approved