Recycling of Computer Equipment Debris by Experimental Electrostatic Separation (Continuous Regime)

EasyChair Preprint 8198

Abstract

The evolution of the field of plastic waste separation is directly linked, on the one hand, to the awareness of serious environmental concerns. On the other hand, it is linked to the growing scale of various wastes which find no other outlet than landfill. Experimental characterization represents the best way and the most efficient tool to model the phenomenon of electrostatic separation of materials. In this paper, the continuous experimental operation of a tribo-aero-electrostatic separation process for a mixture of three granular materials is achieved through the execution of an experimental device (a prototype) is exposed. The effect of the presence of a third species of particles was taken into account. Thus, it was possible to calculate the change over time of the mass of the granules separated at the electrodes for different compositions of the granular mixture. The experimental results obtained are in agreement with the simulations already carried out as well as with the literature.

Keyphrases: Empirical tests, Triboelectricity, electrostatic separation, experimental device, granular materials

@booklet{EasyChair:8198,
  author    = {Chahinez Mimouni and Hakima Labair and Amar Tilmatine},
  title     = {Recycling of Computer Equipment Debris by Experimental Electrostatic Separation (Continuous Regime)},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 8198},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}