Abstract
Electrostatic separation is frequently employed for the selective sorting of conducting and insulating materials for waste electric and electronic equipment. In a series of recent papers, the authors have presented several novel triboelectrostatic separation installations for the recycling of the main categories of plastics contained in information technology wastes. The aim of the present work is to optimize the design and the operation of such an installation, composed of a belt-type electrostatic separator associated to a propeller-type tribocharging device. The experimental design method is employed for modeling and optimizing the separation of a mixture of high-impact polystyrene and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene granules originating from shredded out-of-use computer cases. A distinct experiment is carried out on three synthetic mixtures of virgin plastic granules: 75% polyamide (PA)+ 25% polycarbonate (PC), 50% PA+ 50% PC, and 25% PA + 75% PC. The best results are obtained for the mixtures containing equal quantities of the two constituents.
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