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Material Transformation and Recycling of Automotive Shredder Residues: An Industrial Case Study
Author(s) -
Gomes V. G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
developments in chemical engineering and mineral processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1932-2143
pISSN - 0969-1855
DOI - 10.1002/apj.5500140116
Subject(s) - automotive industry , hazardous waste , toxicity characteristic leaching procedure , waste management , inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy , leaching (pedology) , environmental science , suite , sustainability , inductively coupled plasma , engineering , plasma , history , ecology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology , soil water , soil science , aerospace engineering
Environmental pressures have pushed automotive shredder residues (ASR) into the hazardous waste category, and hence special disposal measures need to be investigated urgently for its sustainability. The possible impacts of ASR on the environment were assessed by using the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP. US EPA 1311) and the Specific Contaminant Concentration (SCC, US‐EPA 3050). these were performed with the aid of an ICP‐AES (Inductively Coupled Plasma with Atomic Emission Spectroscopy) instrument. A suite of options were analyzed for wuste ryres and the ASR generated by companies in the Greater Sydney region. Four classes of recycling options were considered, namely primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary recycling, in order to determine the extent to which they can help improve the overall optimisation of materials and energyflows for the ASR.