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1. Grinding
Refining uses a range of tools adapted to the problem at hand, differing greatly in design and power.
1.1 Waste shredder or shredder
The equipment shown on figure 1 is virtually the same shredder used for ELVs (end-of-life vehicles), with a finer outlet grid and adapted power. The rotor, equipped with hammers, shreds the material, which is then expelled through the sieves after calibration. To avoid the risk of equipment breakage, the material to be shredded must be controlled to extract the unshreddable (massive parts, large bundles of thin, over-compressed aluminum foil).
750 kW of power can effectively reduce grain size...
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