Resumen de Separación por medios electrostáticos de papel, cartón y plástico en diferentes calidades

Edorta Larrauri, Rafael Miguel, Sixto Arnaiz, Christ Robertson, Jeremy Smallwood, John Coit, Raimer Köhnlecher, Reinhard Ufer, Mariana Evangelou, Sotiris Karapatakis, Melanthia Kasi

• Development of automated separation technology is essential in increasing recovery rates, particularly from highly mixed and dirty sources such municipal solid wastes, and in reducing recycling costs. This frame moved Gaiker Technological Centre (Spain) , Era Technology Ltd. (United Kingdom) , Harnos GmbH (Germany) and Komotini Paper Mill (Grecia) to be involved and collaborate with several European partners in the development of generic automated separation and grading of solid materials based on electrostatic techniques. Results derived from this original work are now being successfully applied by the paper industry to the pilot scale separation and grading of paper and plastic from mixed input streams. Electrostatic separation developed devices are protected under European patents. The European Commission has financed this work under the Brite Euram Program.