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    Indian professor develops new process for recycling scrap aluminium

  • China Aluminium Network
  • Post Time: 2018/12/7
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    Aluminum Insider reported that a researcher in India has developed a method for recycling scrap aluminium that allows small plants to produce graded-quality aluminium ingots with enhanced metallurgical and mechanical properties. Though details are sparse, the method, which was developed in a project entitled “Technology System Development of recycling of aluminum alloys for Industrial Applications” and headed up by Mr Ramakrishna Engineering College mechanical engineering professor Mr C Bhagyanathan, consists of alloying such elements in quantities that remove impurities, improve characteristics, and enhance quality. He added that “In this, only chemical composition could be ensured but not quality. The recycling method I have devised involves adding of alloying elements such as magnesium, manganese, zinc, chromium, boron, zirconium and strontium, which will enhance the metal’s properties.”

    He continued by saying that the methods he’s developed allow small-scale operators to remove impurities such as tin, lead, and iron from scrap aluminium.

    Mr Bhagyanathan said that “We have devised sedimentation and filtration methods to remove such impurities. We have introduced a sedimentation technique in the furnace and a filtration technique in the dye which would remove impurities from the molten metal.”

    Mr Bhagyanathan’s methods would aid small-scale plants in producing high-quality aluminium from scrap. At present, only larger aluminuim firms are able to produce ingots, which is the feedstock for most casting processes. He noted that “By adopting this method, small plants could produce high quality ingots with existing infrastructure.”

    In addition to increasing the quantity of scrap aluminium small-scale operators could handle, Bhagyanathan said that his process would allow for a savings in production costs. He said that his method could drop prices by up to 30 percent from current production costs.

    The project is funded in part by the Advanced Manufacturing Technology program, which is part of the Technologies Development and Transfer Division program conducted by India’s Department of Science and Technology. Vice-principal of SREC Dr P Karuppuswamy and senior principal scientist CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram Dr M Ravi are also involved in the project.

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