Recycling of Hard Disk Drive Platters via Plastic Consolidation
Tomasz Skrzekut,
Maciej Wędrychowicz,
Andrzej Piotrowicz
Abstract:The paper presents the comparison of two methods of recycling aluminum from HDD platters—the melting method and the method of plastic consolidation. The main elements of HDD memory, i.e., data carriers (platters), were examined via the percentage share of the total HDD mass and also via EDS analysis. The most common are platters made of the aluminum alloy series 5XXX, which are covered with a thin magnetic layer made of nickel. The research involved removing data carriers from about 30 HDDs and fragmenting the… Show more
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