SBIR Phase II: A New Technology for Rapid Identification of Aluminum Metals

SBIR 第二阶段：快速鉴定铝金属的新技术

• 批准号: 0239055
• 负责人: Edward Sommer
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: National Recovery Technologies LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0239055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; New; Technology

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a new technology for rapid identification and sorting of aluminum and its alloys from a mixture of non-magnetic metals and will provide a new high quality source of these valuable materials for industrial manufacturing processes. This project plans to complete development of an innovative new optoelectronic sensing method integral to the new technology and then design, construct, and test a near commercial scale prototype metals processing system based upon the new technology. The prototype system will be integrated into an existing pilot plant test facility located on-site at the commercial partner's metals recycling facility and will be tested on metal feed streams derived from an automobile shredder processing line located at the recycling facility. A primary objective is to develop an environmentally friendly computerized dry process which can be situated locally and which can rapidly and cleanly sort aluminum scrap from mixtures of nonmagnetic metals at low cost to replace large, costly, and environmentally burdensome heavy media processes and smelting processes for mixed metals.The commercial and broader impacts of this technology will be to reduce the amount of scrap aluminum alloys that are discarded each year in landfills because recycling of these materials are neither technically nor economically practical. Existing methods of sortation use visual examination and hand sortation, or hand-held/bench-top analyzers that are cumbersome and slow in speed. Heavy media separators and smelting facilities for mixed metals are polluting and expensive to build and operate. Using advanced optoelectronic detection techniques, including computer analysis, the proposed technology will sort aluminum alloys from mixed nonferrous metals automatically at speeds never before attainable. If the approach is successful, the impact to increased scrap utilization, increased scrap value and reduced environmental pollution is enormous. The potential worldwide market exceeds $2 Billion annually.

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将开发一种新技术，用于从非磁性金属混合物中快速识别和分选铝及其合金，并将为工业制造过程提供这些有价值材料的新的高质量来源。该项目计划完成一个创新的新的光电传感方法的开发集成到新技术，然后设计，建造和测试一个接近商业规模的原型金属加工系统的基础上的新技术。该原型系统将被整合到位于商业伙伴的金属回收设施现场的现有试点工厂测试设施中，并将对来自回收设施的汽车切碎机加工线的金属进料流进行测试。一个主要目的是开发一种环境友好的计算机化干法工艺，该工艺可以位于本地，并且可以以低成本从废金属混合物中快速和清洁地分选铝废料，以取代大的、昂贵的，以及环境负担沉重的重介质工艺和混合金属的熔炼工艺。该技术的商业和更广泛的影响将是减少废铝合金的数量，因为回收这些材料在技术上和经济上都不切实际。现有的分拣方法使用目视检查和手动分拣，或手持式/台式分析仪，这些分析仪笨重且速度慢。用于混合金属的重介质分离器和熔炼设施具有污染性，并且建造和运营费用昂贵。利用先进的光电检测技术，包括计算机分析，拟议的技术将自动分拣铝合金从混合有色金属的速度前所未有的。如果该方法成功，对提高废钢利用率、增加废钢价值和减少环境污染的影响是巨大的。潜在的全球市场每年超过20亿美元。