Fuji Heavy Industries Develops Automobile Shredder Residue Separation System

Fuji Heavy Industries, a manufacturer of automobiles, railroad vehicles and machinery, has developed an "ASR preprocessing and separating system," which effectively recovers valuable resources from automobile shredder residue. It can be put to practical use as a low-cost and small-scale system that could be installed within the factories of shredder residue treatment companies. Fuji aims to provide the momentum to achieve a 95-percent recycling rate of end-of-life automobiles.

This system can separate the complex compound shredder residue in two processes to effectively segregate and reclaim heavier materials, such as nonferrous metals, and light materials such as plastic. In the separating process, the system cleans the residue by directly spraying a vapor to control dust. More than 55 percent of the shredder residue can be reclaimed as valuable resources.

Shredder residue produced from end-of-life automobiles adds up to at least 600,000 tonnes annually in Japan, and contains valuable resources (nonferrous metals, plastics, etc.). In the past, most of the residue was disposed in landfills as industrial waste, or fused for thermal recycling. It is expected that this system can contribute to reducing the volume of shredder residue and waste disposal costs, as well as improving the rate of recycling.



Posted: 2003/06/13 10:31:55 AM
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