The main effect in solving the problem of municipal solid waste (MSW) gives extraction or preventing the ingress in them secondary material resources (SMR). Ones of the main valuable components falling in the MSW are polymeric wastes. Their content in the MSW is about 10%, and 40% are accounted for the polymeric films. Entering of polymeric materials in the environment leads to its significant pollution because in vivo the plastic waste is not decomposed and not degraded over many decades.
The authors considered some ways to recycle plastic waste and noted that for the extraction of polymeric materials from MSW are most appropriate methods of separation, that isn´t connected with changes in the aggregate state of the plastics in the process of separation.
It was shown experimentally that the best results of polymeric films extraction from the flow of solid waste provides a combination of two enrichment processes - aeroseparation and electrical separation. As the parameters optimization of the separation process of the polymeric films used technological criteria (a combination of the basic parameters of enrichment), and as a method to study the process - mathematical modeling.
The authors noted the methods of intensification of the enrichment processes and control the physical properties of the components of separated composition of materials, and it is reported that in the various methods electrical separation had been used strong electric fields and thus a high voltage.
The dependences of the specific electrical resistance of the samples of waste paper and polymeric film from moisture and curves of ability for enrichment of these components with aeroseparation in different conditions and indicators of their enrichment are shown in the article.
The article is a message containing systematized information on resource-saving technologies as the basic for involving metal-containing secondary raw materials in the economic turnover. The set of independent technologies arranged in a certain sequence that solve the problems of resource saving allows us to compare the specific features and effectiveness of the use of each of them, the details and features of the processes. It is shown that the following can be the main sources of rare metals and REE: phosphogypsum (REE, Sr); ash and slag waste from TPPs, ash and slag waste (REE, Ti, Sc); metallurgical slags (Ge, Be, Se, Te, V); sulfuric acid dust (Se, Te); alumina production waste - red mud (Sc, REE); liquid waste from sulphate production of titanium dioxide (Sc, Ti); refinery dust bins (Se, Te); wastes from production of permanent magnets (Nd, Sm). It is noted that the technology uses beneficiation methods, acid leaching and ion-exchange concentration, biotechnology, electrolysis, heat treatment, a combination of different methods. To assess the quality of man-made raw materials and their suitability for complex processing and utilization, the article uses the methodology of analytical research of a set of patented technological solutions (technological samples were taken from real man-made deposits).
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