Projektbeschreibung
Recycling von hybriden Mensch-Roboter-Elektro- und Elektronikgeräten
Die Fortschritte in der Elektro- und Elektroniktechnologie haben zu einem starken Anstieg der Produktion und des Abfallaufkommens im Zusammenhang mit solchen Geräten geführt. Dadurch steht die Branche unter Druck, Lösungen für die Entsorgung von Elektro- und Elektronikaltgeräten zu finden. Leider wurden trotz des großen Interesses nur wenige Lösungen eingeführt, da die derzeitigen Verfahren mit gefährlichen, schwer zu bedienenden und kostspieligen Geräten und Methoden verbunden sind. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt HR-Recycler will hier Abhilfe schaffen, indem es eine Recyclinganlage entwickelt, die von einer hybriden Kombination aus Menschen und Robotern betrieben wird. Diese Anlage wird automatisierte Prozesse und Ausrüstungen nutzen, um die Risiken für das Personal zu verringern, die Kosten zu senken und die Effizienz zu steigern.
Ziel
The technological advances that have been achieved over the past decades have led to a tremendous increase of both the types and the total amount of electrical and electronic equipment that is manufactured. Despite the importance of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) management, the issue of the WEEE recycling has not received that increased industrial attention. HR-Recycler will target the development of a ‘hybrid human-robot recycling plant for electrical and electronic equipment’ operating in an indoor environment. The fundamental aim of the system (and its great innovation potential) will be to replace multiple currently manual, expensive, hazardous and time-consuming tasks of WEEE materials pre-processing with correspondingly automatic robotic-based procedures (categorization of electric/electronic devices, disassembling them, sorting of device components), before the materials are eventually provided as input to a fine shredding machine and conventional material separation steps are applied (using air/water flows, oscillating movements, magnets, etc.). More specifically, the overall goal of HR-Recycler is to create a hybrid collaboration environment, where humans and robots will harmoniously share and undertake at the same time different processing and manipulation tasks, targeting the industrial application case of WEEE recycling. The primary output of the envisaged system will be to extract sorted electric/electronic device components [e.g. Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), Cu coils, capacitors, etc.] and concentrated fractions (e.g. copper, aluminium, plastics, etc.) of increased economic and environmental value; hence, contributing to the fundamental goal of the ‘European circular economy’ project and boosting economic activity in secondary markets. Additionally, mixed fractions (i.e. fractions with low concentration in valuable materials) will be collected, in order to be sent to other facilities for further dedicated recycling process.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
Schlüsselbegriffe
Programm/Programme
Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung
Andere Projekte für diesen Aufruf anzeigenUnterauftrag
H2020-NMBP-FOF-2018
Finanzierungsplan
RIA - Research and Innovation actionKoordinator
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
Griechenland