Upgrading nonferrous metal scrap for recycling purposes

Reusing materials in the post-consumer phase of a product is very important ; however, it is often difficult to separate the met als, resulting in a sc rap that is high in impurities and limited in application. To prevent the m ixing of scrap, separation at the source is required. Recently, several tec hniques for separating nonferrous metals have become available, including e ddy-current separation to separate Nonferrous metals from a mixture of wast e,fluid-bed separation to separate light and heavy metals, and image analys is to separate cast and wrought alloys.