Scrap tires continue to be a major source of waste due to the lack of valuable and effective disposal routes. A viable solution to this problem is to recycle crumb rubber (CR)-a granulated material derived from scrap tires-and use it to develop other valuable products. Herein we report the fabrication and characterization of CR-modified coatings with anticorrosive properties on metal substrates...

Recently, "meltless" recycling techniques have been presented for the light metals category, targeting both energy and material savings by bypassing the final recycling step of remelting. In this context, the use of spark plasma sintering (SPS) is proposed in this paper as a novel solid-state recycling technique. The objective is two-fold: (I) to prove the technical feasibility of this approach...

Recycling is extremely important for steelmaking. In developed countries, about 60% of steel is manufactured from scrap. The scrap contains 0.5% of zinc in average, and this percentage steadily increases. During the steelmaking process both in basic oxygen furnaces (BOF) and in electric arc furnaces (EAF), all volatile zinc is released and forms airborne particles of dust. About 20 kg of dust i...

From the use of renewable resources and environmental protection viewpoints, recycling of waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) receives wide concerns as the amounts of scrap PCBs increases dramatically In recent years there has been increasing concern about the growing volume of end of life electronics and the fact that much of it is consigned to landfill w ithout any attempt being made to recyc...

The rapid growth in the use of electronic equipments, combined with early obsolescence has contributed enormously to the generation of large quantity of electronic (e) waste. One such e-waste, the mobile phone printed circuit boards (PCBs) contain various precious metals which can be extracted by different hydrometallurgical routes. The present work deals with the recovery of gold using ammoniu...

A WELSH acute trust wants to scrap sick pay for new nurses in a move which the RCN says could make it one of the worst NHS employers in the UK.

Inspection of components using machine vision technologies provides solution for quality and process control. Various applications of Machine vision technologies are automotive, Pharmaceutical, food and beverage, electronics, packages, process control and special application. In this paper dimensional measurement, optical character reorganization, process control using image processing, checkin...

Recycling of aluminum alloys often decrease fluidity, consequently influence the castability of the alloy. In this study, the fluidity of Al-Zn alloys, such as the standard A713 alloy with and without scrap addition has been investigated. The scrap added was comprised of contaminated alloy turning chips. Fluidity measurements were performed with double spiral fluidity test consisting of gravity...