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Secondary Feedstock

Recycling and Refining of Aluminum Foils and other Difficult Scraps

Recycling and Refining of Aluminum Foils and other Difficult Scraps

The goal of this project is to produce a cost-competitive secondary feedstock for the aluminum industry using under-utilized foil materials as a source of material. Upon completion, this project will deliver a new processing technology that can continuously process thin gauge materials with a high level of organic contamination with high recovery yields, and design and demonstration of a novel prototype multi-chamber kiln for processing aluminum foils for recycling. This project will reduce primary feedstock by 0.326 million metric tons (MMT) of scrap aluminum, 55.6 PJ energy reduction, 2.71 MMTCO2e. Assumptions based on recovery of 360,000 short tons of scrap aluminum foil. 

Project Team:
Oculatus Consulting, Phinix LLC, Eck Industries, GPRL R&E LLLC

21-01-RR-5059

Chemical Conversion and Process Control for Increased used of Polyethylene and Polypropylene Secondary Feedstocks

Chemical Conversion and Process Control for Increased use of Polyethylene and Polypropylene Secondary Feedstocks

This project seeks to evaluate reactive feedstock pre-treatment and to develop real-time process measurements to increase post-consumer and post-industrial polyolefin film waste utilization.

Project Team:
University of Massachusetts Lowell (UM-L), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), SER North America LLC, iMFLUX Inc.

20-01-MM-4130

Supramolecular Interfacial Reinforcement for Manufacture Utilizing Mixed Secondary Plastic Feedstock

Supramolecular Interfacial Reinforcement for Manufacture Utilizing Mixed Secondary Plastic Feedstock

This project seeks to develop a compatibilizer for MPO (mixed polymeric olefins, i.e., PE and PP) which are difficult to separate from each other and are incompatible. The compatibilized MPO will compete with virgin PE and virgin PP.

Project Team:
The University of Akron, Braskem

20-01-MM-4026

Demineralization of Carbon Black Derived from End-of-Life Tires

Demineralization of Carbon Black Derived from End-of-Life Tires

Alternative process technologies will be experimentally evaluated to upgrade carbon black recovered from end-of-life tires to meet carbon black market quality specifications. Approximately 3.87 Mt of waste tires accrue every year in the United States. If all these tires were processed to recover the carbon black, about 1.1 Mt of carbon black could be recovered to use as a secondary feedstock.

Project Team:
University of Utah, OTR Wheel Engineering/Green Carbon Inc., Idaho National Laboratory

18-01-RR-19

Evaluation of Logistics Systems for the Collection, Preprocessing and Production of Secondary Feedstocks from E-waste

Evaluation of Logistics Systems for the Collection, Preprocessing and Production of Secondary Feedstocks from E-waste

The objective of this project is to develop an e-waste logistics model that integrates transportation, manufacturing processes, and markets to enable optimal recovery and recycling of e-waste. The model will enable identification of least cost options for increasing e-waste collection and recycling.

Project Team:
Idaho National Laboratory, Sunnking, Inc.

18-01-RR-18

Biological & Bio-Mechanical Technologies for Recycled Fibers to Regain Fiber Quality and Increase Secondary Feedstock in High Value-Added Paper Grades

Biological & Bio-Mechanical Technologies for Recycled Fibers to Regain Fiber Quality and Increase Secondary Feedstock in High Value-Added Paper Grades

The goal of this project is to develop new technologies for removing contaminants from recycled paper to less than 0.5% and to develop technologies for regaining or fiber quality without using only mechanical refining. The new technologies developed will help paper recycling industry to produce much cleaner pulp and higher quality fibers so more recycled fibers can be used in place of virgin fibers in high grade paper. The new technologies developed based on new enzyme applications will also reduce the energy consumptions in both contamination removal and fiber refining process and increase the yield of the fiber recycling.

Project Team:
Western Michigan University, Idaho National Laboratory, Graphic Packaging International, WestRock Company

19-01-MM-03

 

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