The challenges for the automotive industry with regard to their products, design and production processes and recycling arise, amongst others, from current and future markets as well as legal requirements. In this regard, materials are of utmost significance since the choice of materials greatly influences, among other things, recyclability. Recycled materials from end-of-life vehicles are important resources for the production of secondary products and the generation of energy. This fact acquires vital implications since the prices of primary raw materials on world markets have seen a huge upsurge over the last few years. The legal requirements for the recycling of ELVs (End-of-Life Vehicle) derive from the European Directive on ELV. This directive also defines legal standards for recycling quotas of ELVs. In order to fulfil these quotas manual dismantling of plastic parts has been the strategy which was followed in the past. Component-specific requirements have been defined for vehicle design in order to get a recycling optimised product. However, manual dismantling offers no economical or ecological benefits in comparison to large scale sorting technologies which have witnessed very intensive development. Since these technologies are applied after the shredding process they are summarised under the term post shredder technology. These technologies have reached a highly sophisticated level which allows a reorientation in the design for recycling of a car no longer considering manual dismantling of plastic components.


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    Title :

    Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles - Current status and future perspectives


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 2 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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