Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Materials Resource Recovery and Recyclability

规划补助金：I/UCRC 用于材料资源回收和可循环性

• 批准号: 0855796
• 负责人: Diran Apelian
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855796&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Materials; Resource

This collaborative grant to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Colorado School of Mines is to fund a study on the feasibility of creating a research center in the area of materials recovery and recyclability. The PIs plan to meet with industry leaders to help determine the need and sustainability for a government, industry, and academic partnership to work on research issues related to innovative recovery and recycling technologies that maximize the recovery of scrap from the waste stream and optimizes the cycling of these material back into the production of materials and products.Strategies will be planned with industry input to develop and build systems that optimize recovery and recycling technologies including: increased recyclability; developing sensors to identify metals and separation technologies to sort the waste stream; and establishing materials sensors, processes, and controls to achieve greater tolerance of scrap metal input for downstream recycling processes. Materials recovery and recycling research would be multi-disciplinary involving physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, management sciences, materials science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. Generic science and technology developed by the center could have applicability in metallic alloys while providing economic and societal benefits. Energy savings and avoidance of pollution represent a compelling reason to establish this center as well as interests from a broad societal need throughout the supply chain involving scrap yards, disassembling companies, municipal waste centers, shredding companies, smelters, foundries, and consumers.

这项对伍斯特理工学院和科罗拉多矿业学院的合作赠款是为了资助一项关于在材料回收和可回收性领域建立一个研究中心的可行性研究。PI计划与行业领导者会面，以帮助确定政府，行业，和学术合作伙伴关系，致力于与创新回收和再循环技术相关的研究问题，这些技术可以最大限度地从废物流中回收废料，并优化这些材料重新循环到材料和产品的生产中。将根据行业投入来规划战略开发和建立系统优化回收和再循环技术，包括：提高可回收性;开发识别金属的传感器和对废物流进行分类的分离技术;建立材料传感器、流程和控制，以实现对下游回收流程的废金属输入的更大容忍度。材料回收和再循环研究将是多学科的，涉及物理学，数学，计算机科学，经济学，管理科学，材料科学，机械工程和电气工程。该中心开发的通用科学和技术可以应用于金属合金，同时提供经济和社会效益。节能和避免污染是建立该中心的一个令人信服的理由，也是整个供应链中广泛的社会需求的利益，包括废料场、拆解公司、城市废物中心、粉碎公司、冶炼厂、铸造厂和消费者。