• Input:
  - Small household appliances (coffee machines, toasters, vacuum cleaners, irons, hair dryers, alarm clocks, etc.)
  - Large household appliances (washing machines, cooking machines, microwaves, electric radiators, etc.)

• Output:
  - Fractions of plastic, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, glass, cables, printed circuit boards, etc.

• The line’s treatment capacity: 3-5 tones / hour (depending on the type of appliance).

 

Process flow

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Equipments’ preparation
The external electrical cables and the hazardous contained components are removed.

First shredding
The equipments are cut in smaller pieces in order to be easier to sort certain materials and components.

Manual sorting
Some components like condensers, transformers, printed circuits boards, etc. are sorted in order to be treated on other lines.

Second shredding
Its role is to reduce the dimension of the fractions.

Fractions’ separation
a) magnetic separation: for ferrous fractions
b) inductive separation: non-ferrous metallic fractions (ex: aluminium, copper, etc.) and non-metallic fractions (ex. plastic, wood, rubber, etc.).