Aerosol Can recycling general information:
Aerosol Can recycling general information:
The aerosol can recycle equipment basic information, (Aerosol shredding unit) Shreds the aerosol cans into ½ to 1-inch wide strips between 2-4 inches long. The customer loads the sealed hopper with cans. The customer can remove the caps first from the aerosol cans or can leave them on and just dump the all into the hopper. Each hopper is based by the size of the shredding (ASU) unit and can vary from ½ cubic yard holding and up to 2 cubic yards holding. Once loaded the customer shuts the hopper lid to seal the chamber. Once sealed the lid sensor ensures the lid is closed. The unit can now operate. The customer starts the ASU aerosol can recovery system.
The customer activates the start button from the HMI color screen or from push button start button. Once activated the PLC ensures that all safeties are in order and allows the can crushing/ shredding recycling unit to activate. First activation is that the vacuum blower/s turn on to draw a vacuum on the hopper chamber. The vacuum blowers be activated the N2/nitrogen solenoid and send through mechanical flow meter the nitrogen/ inert gas into the chamber to remove/reduce the oxygen from shredder chamber. The vacuum blower/blowers put the air through activated carbon beds or can be set directly to customers thermal oxidizer if they have one to be burnt off.
The shredder starts up in reverse to ensure that the aerosol steal cans were not jamming shredder teeth from last operations. The teeth runs in reverse for 30 sections to remove anything that was stick in shredder then stops and start in forward shredding position to shred the cans, During this operation the auger removal system is activated to take the metal or plastic pieces to a higher elevation to discharge into the customers metal bin for removal.
The liquids drop down into the lower chamber for removal of the liquids that is transferred to customers tank through a pneumatic air pump. Then the metals can be set off to smelting plants and the liquid waste can be sent off for a burning fluid or recycled. The VOC that are captured through carbon beds or burned in thermal oxidizers is monitored by a LEL sensor to ensure that vapors are being captured by the carbon bed.
The hazardous waste aerosol recycling equipment (ASU) is used for larger volume recycling of the aerosol cans, 1-gallon paint pails and other metal items with same size and thickness.
Aerosol spray cans contain product and propellant under pressure and is released in a mist, or foam. Common aerosol can products include solvents, paints and foaming products. Most aerosol cans are recyclable steel or aluminum and can be easily used as scrap metal when propellants and materials are emptied from aerosol cans. When aerosol cans are unusable to be emptied due to broken spray nozzles the remaining liquids, vapors, left in the can may be hazardous waste and subject to regulation.
The handling of hazardous waste aerosol cans can pose risks to the environment. SRS Designed equipment reduces the aerosol cans being set to landfills by separating and containing the all the products for recycling and reuse or repurposing of the materials extracted.
SRS Designed Equipment, 41593 Winchester Rd., #200-249, Temecula, Ca. 92590-4857. PH# 951.538.7924
