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Experimental Study of an Inclined-Plane Electrostatic Separator

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Free-fall electrostatic separator is the most basic and a standard solution to separate insulators mixtures. In this paper, an inclined configuration based on free-fall separator was studied. The performances of the studied separator were evaluated through recovery and purity of a separated mixture composed of Polyamide (PA) and Polycarbonate (PC) granular materials. Mainly, the applied voltage to the electrodes and the angle of inclination were the two studied factors. These two factors were varied respectively between 5 kV and 10 kV for the voltage and 25° to 90° for the inclination angle. The obtained results show that recovery rate is increased as the voltage increase so that the more is the voltage the more is the recovered quantity. Conversely, the best results are obtained for lowest inclination angle (25°). At 10 kV and 25°, the recovery rate was more than 70% with products purity roughly 97% for the PA and 98% for the PC. The inclined-plane allowed the increase in recovery rate and purity in comparison to the standard free-fall configuration.

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    A. Nadjem, M. Kachi, K. Rouagdia & M. Remadnia

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Nadjem, A., Kachi, M., Rouagdia, K., Remadnia, M. (2018). Experimental Study of an Inclined-Plane Electrostatic Separator. In: Abdelbaki, B., Safi, B., Saidi, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Materials and Sustainable Development. SMSD 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89707-3_50

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