Article | REF: M2346 V1

Aluminium recovery and recycling. Raw materials

Author: François HERBULOT

Publication date: March 10, 2001

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2. Physical and physico-chemical preparation processes

2.1 Sorting by density

This sorting method involves immersing the objects to be sorted, which are characterized by different densities, in a dense liquid with a pre-adjusted density.

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2.1.1 Origins

Until the early 1960s, old casings were sorted by hand, then melted in a selective melting furnace.

The 1960s and 1970s saw the pioneering application of density sorting to metal sorting.

Between 1970 and 1990,...

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