Objective
The aim of this research project is to reduce the copper
content (derived from electric motors) in steels
resulting from the recycling of automobile wrecks.
Actually the separation of ferrous metal from non ferrous
is made by magnetic way and the laminated iron armatures
are systematically oriented to the iron scrap with the
copper coils which compose it because of the predominance
of iron mass. The manual sorting is the only way to
remove them. The result of such sorting is very uncertain
and therefore not satisfactory.
Previous works have shown that the manufacturing of
motors using soft friable magnetic circuit would allow
systematically the separation of steel and windings
without any reconsideration of the vehicles crushing
installations.
The research project will consist of the conception and
the realisation at industrial scale of a new DC 12/24 V
electric motor, taking advantage of the possibilities
given by the mouiling technology (derived from powder
metallurgy) applied to magnetic circuits. Besides a
better copper recovery, this new concept of moulded
magnetic circuits will allow other functions integration
like cooling or shaft overmoulding and the production of
net shape and well balanced parts. All these factors will
lead to performance increasing and/or price decreasing.
Environmental tools and guidelines based on the life
cycle concept will be used to promote cleaner production
methods.
The consortium comprises an automotive equipment supplier
producing more than 1,5 million electric motor per year,
a metal powder supplier as soft magnetic compounds
developer, a company specialised in powder metallurgy for
the motor armatures production, a research institute and
an university for the ecodesign aspect in motor
development.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes recycling
- engineering and technology materials engineering metallurgy
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