Automotive shredder residue (ASR): Reviewing its production from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and its recycling, energy or chemicals’ valorisation

Vermeulen, Isabel; Caneghem, Jo Van; Block, Chantal; Baeyens, Jan; Vandecasteele, Carlo

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.02.088

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“…This was reflected in there being limited documentation of operating thermal plants using ASR. Workers in this area (Vermeulen et al, 2011;Cossu and Lai, 2015) who have listed both experimental technologies and full scale applications concluded that research was required to prove the long-term prospect of thermal treatment of ASR. The organisations in Table 5 were sub-divided into the capacity of their plants.…”

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Challenges around automotive shredder residue production and disposal

Khodier

Williams

Dallison³

2018

Waste Management

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a b s t r a c tThe challenge for the automotive industry is how to ensure they adopt the circular economy when it comes to the disposal of end-of-life vehicles (ELV). According to the European Commission the UK achieved a total reuse and recovery rate of 88%. This is short of the revised ELV directive target of 95% materials recovery, which requires a minimum of 85% of materials to be recycled or reused. A significant component of the recycling process is the production of automotive shredder residue (ASR). This is currently landfilled across Europe. The additional 10% could be met by processing ASR through either waste-to-energy facilities or Post shredder technology (PST) to recover materials. The UK auto and recycling sectors claimed there would need to be a massive investment by their members in both new capacity and new technology for PST to recover additional recycle materials. It has been shown that 50% of the ASR contains valuable recoverable materials which could be used to meet the Directive target. It is expected in the next 5 years that technological innovation in car design will change the composition from easily recoverable metal to difficult polymers. This change in composition will impact on the current drive to integrate the European Circular Economy Package. A positive factor is that main driver for using ASR is coming from the metals recycling industry itself. They are looking to develop the infrastructure for energy generation from ASR and subsequent material recovery. This is driven by the economics of the process rather than meeting the Directive targets. The study undertaken has identified potential pathways and barriers for commercial thermal treatment of ASR. The results of ASR characterisation were used to assess commercial plants from around the world. Whilst there were many claiming that processing of ASR was possible none have so far shown both the technological capability and economic justification.

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Challenges around automotive shredder residue production and disposal

Khodier

Williams

Dallison³

2018

Waste Management

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“…It depends more on scrap value than on component value (van Heerden and Curran, 2010). This is the reason why material quantification related studies are abundantly available within the literature of vehicle recycling industry , Gerrard and Kandlikar, 2007, Jeff and Gregory, 2001, Kanari et al, 2003, Mat Saman and Blount, 2006, Vermeulen et al, 2011 while the literature of aircraft recycling industry is more focused on disassembly of reusable components (De Brito et al, 2007, Ribeiro and Gomes, 2015, van Heerden and Curran, 2010). …”

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Quantitative assessment of material composition of end-of-life ships using onboard documentation

Jain

Pruyn

Hopman

2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Abstract:Ship recycling yards around the world offer a price to the ship owners for buying an obsolete vessel to demolish and recycle based on the ship's end-of-life weight. The offer price is mainly based on the type of ship and the estimated quantity of steel available. The steel weight estimation, in terms of percentage of lightweight (LDT), is carried out either on the basis of recycling yards' experience or by an expert opinion without using any scientifically rigorous method. The accurate quantification of all the material streams of an end-of-life ship is needed for planning the ship recycling process with better resource allocation and waste management strategies, especially in light of the Hong Kong convention and the new EU regulation on ship recycling. It might also assist in better estimation of cost and income of recycling the ship. A literature survey of the subject found that a clear knowledge gap exists in this area of study, only aggregate data of materials of ships is available, no ship by ship data exist. Thus, in this paper, a methodology to quantify material streams of an individual ship using the information readily available at the end of its life is presented. The advantages of using the developed methodology are explained. Lastly, a few recommendations to improve future ship designs for safe and environmentally sound ship recycling are presented based on the knowledge gained in the methodology development process.

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“…These non-metal component from vehicles originates from various parts of the vehicle, mainly the dashboard, car seat, car carpet and car bumper. This various part mostly made up from plastic and PVC and most of these elements cannot be recycled nor reused, it will usually be disposes in landfills [3]. However, the increasing concern regarding the environmental issues regarding landfills has resulted more stringent regulations imposed by the local authorities and governments as landfilling affects directly the ecosystem, environment and population [4].…”

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“…One of the viable techniques in handling automotive shredder residue (ASR) is by incineration and co-incineration with other wastes [3,4]. Both of this processes may reduce significantly the total amount of ASR that is landfilled and thus ease the environmental impact.…”

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Characterization of Bottom and Fly Ashes Generated Co-incineration of Biomass with Automotive Shredder Residue

2017

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Abstract.One of the viable techniques to reduce land filling of automotive shredder residue is by co-incinerating them with biomass. This study focuses on characterization of bottom and fly ashes produced from the coincineration of the automotive shredded residue with oil palm biomass. The co-incineration was carried out in a pilot-scale fluidized bed incinerator. The oil palm biomass used was oil palm shell while the automotive shredded residue was obtained from a local recycling company. The characterization was done based on particle size distribution, morphology (SEM analysis) and chemical composition (EDS analysis). In term of chemical composition the ashes contain C (Carbon), O (Oxygen), Si (Silicon), K (Potassium), Ca (Calcium) and Fe (Ferum.

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Automotive shredder residue (ASR): Reviewing its production from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and its recycling, energy or chemicals’ valorisation

Cited by 253 publications

References 119 publications

Challenges around automotive shredder residue production and disposal

Challenges around automotive shredder residue production and disposal

Quantitative assessment of material composition of end-of-life ships using onboard documentation

Characterization of Bottom and Fly Ashes Generated Co-incineration of Biomass with Automotive Shredder Residue

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