The Metal-ID separation system: A new approach to recovering non-ferrous metals using multi-frequency metal-detection and machine learning.

详细描述你的项目，并以一种你乐于看到发表的方式。不要包含任何商业敏感信息。如果我们授予你的项目资金，我们将公布这一描述。这可能发生在你开始项目之前。你的答案最多可达400字。这是一个可行性项目：我们的目标是：(1)在一个完整的、接近市场的分离解决方案（TRL~7）中建立Metal-ID技术（TRL~ 3）的可行性，(2)获得商业相关的性能统计数据。我们在实验室传感器上的测试表明前景光明。建立真正的商业可行性和客户的兴趣，需要一个完整的系统，认识到材料，支出和运营成本，并在大量的实际废料上进行测试。金属识别（metal - id）技术是一种创新性的废金属分类新方法，源于对UoM多频金属探测的原始研究。该技术将创造出一种新产品——一种“先进的”感应分离系统，它在设计和性能方面与现有的感应分离器有了根本性的不同，并有可能以更低的成本与高精度技术竞争。我们是第一个展示这项技术的公司，我们在这项技术的发展中处于领先地位。我们提出了一个清晰的商业案例。随着立法、贸易壁垒和市场对有色金属的需求提高了回收产品的质量，减少了填埋的数量，我们正在响应改进有色金属分离的需要。我们估计，我们的技术可以将混合金属回收的价值提高30%，可能为英国每年可获得的250kt材料的价值增加5000万英镑。这项工作促成了一种新的伙伴关系。它结合了我们在电磁学和仪器仪表方面的研究优势，在磁选制造和工程方面的专业知识，以及与客户的牢固关系，为评估市场需求和商业价值提供第一手情报。双方已经签订了开发协议。我们为这项工作制定了一个现实的18个月时间表，为技术风险（故障或性能不佳）、操作风险（停工、锁定）和商业风险（低价值和占用）提供了应急措施。这些部件将在短期内交付一个新产品，该产品将英国研究与雄心勃勃的英国工程业务相结合，在一个重要领域创造价值并影响全球经济。

Describe your project in detail, and in a way that you are happy to see published. Do not include any commercially sensitive information. If we award your project funding, we will publish this description. This could happen before you start your project. Your answer can be up to 400 words long.This is a feasibility project: We aim to, (1) establish the feasibility of the Metal-ID technology (TRL ~3) in a full, near-to-market separation solution (TRL~7), and (2) obtain commercially-relevant performance statistics. Our tests on a lab-based sensor suggest promise. Establishing true commercial feasibility, and interest from customers, requires a full system, cognisant of material, outlay and operating costs, and tested on large quantities of real scrap material.The Metal-ID technology is an innovative new approach to scrap metal classification, resulting from original research on multi-frequency metal detection by UoM. The technology will create a new product -- an 'advanced' induction separation system that presents a radical departure in terms of design and capabilities from existing induction separators, and threatens to compete with high precision technologies at a much lower-cost. We are the first to demonstrate this technology and we have taken the lead on its development.We have put forward a clear business case. We are responding to a need for improved separation for non-ferrous metals, as legislation, trade-barriers, and market demand for these metals drives-up recycled product quality, and drives down quantities left to landfill. We estimate our technology could increase the value of mixed-metal recyclate by up to 30%, potentially adding £50m to the value of the 250kt material available annually in the UK.This work foments a new partnership. It combines our strengths of research into electromagnetics and instrumentation, with expertise in manufacturing and engineering for magnetic separation, and strong relationships with customers providing first-hand intelligence for assessing market needs and commercial value. Agreements for exploitation are in place between both parties. We have set-out a realistic 18-month timetable for the work, that provides contingencies for technical risks (failure or poor performance), operational risks (work-stoppages, lock-down), and commercial risks (poor value and take-up). The pieces are in place to deliver in the near term a new product which combines UK research with an ambitious UK engineering business, to create value in an important sector and impact the global economy.