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RECORD NUMBER: 691 OF 765

Main Title Test of an Eddy Current Separator for the Recovery of Aluminum from Municipal Waste. Test No. 5.01, Recovery 1, New Orleans.
CORP Author National Center for Resource Recovery, Inc., Washington, DC.;Municipal Environmental Research Lab., Cincinnati, OH.
Year Published 1981
Report Number EPA-68-01-4423; EPA-600/2-81-117;
Stock Number PB81-217663
Additional Subjects Separators ; Materials recovery ; Aluminum ; Cans ; Tests ; Separation ; Eddy current separators ; Municipal wastes ; Waste processing ; NTISEPAORD
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NTIS  PB81-217663 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The report documents three series of test runs (collectively, Test No. 5.01) of the eddy current separator that recovers principally aluminum cans from a processed portion of municipal refuse at the New Orleans Resource Recovery Project (Recovery 1). The objectives were to measure differences in efficiency and product rate which accompany an acceleration in AlMag throughput, i.e., test points of 2, 3, and 4 tph, respectively. The output streams of the eddy current separator from each test run were analyzed for aluminum-can content in three can-shape categories; the product stream was also analyzed for four categories of contamination. The efficiency of the eddy current separator in recovering each shape category of aluminum cans, as well as product purity, was determined for each test run and averaged for each test point.