Center for Materials Resource Recovery and Recyclability

对伍斯特理工学院和科罗拉多矿业学院的这笔合作赠款是为了资助一项关于在材料回收和可循环利用领域建立一个研究中心的可行性研究。PIS计划与行业领袖会面，以帮助确定政府、行业和学术伙伴关系在与创新回收和再循环技术相关的研究问题上工作的必要性和可持续性，这些技术可最大限度地捕获废料，同时将捕获的废料数量降至最低。将与行业意见一起规划战略，以开发和建立优化回收和再循环技术的系统，包括：提高可回收性；开发识别金属的传感器和分类废流的分离技术；以及建立材料传感器、工艺和控制，以实现对下游回收过程的废金属投入的更大容忍度。材料回收和循环利用的研究将是多学科的，涉及物理、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在提供经济和社会效益的同时适用于金属合金。能源节约和避免污染是建立这个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所在，涉及废品场、拆解公司、城市废物中心、粉碎公司、冶炼厂、铸造厂和消费者。

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 relate to innovative recovery and recycling technologies that maximize the capture of scrap while minimizing the quantity of scrap to be captured. 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.