Objective
The aluminium industry still strongly depends on the supply of primary aluminium. The use of 'secondary' aluminium, mainly coming from the recuperation of used aluminium, reduces the necessary quantity of primary aluminium.
The aim of the project is to optimise the use of 'secondary' aluminium in an environmentally friendly way. A new concept is elaborated for the re-melting of aluminium. The novelties are a new form of the oven in combination with recently developed techniques and mathematical optimisation of the aluminium flow during the production process.
The 'Greenmelt' project will create a melting capacity of secondary aluminium of 30 000 tonnes per year (today 18 000 tonnes per year). In this way aluminium residuals of the automobile and packaging industry can be recycled and reused in the same processes. The necessity of primary metal will decrease 12 000 tonnes per year. Additionally the need for electricity will be reduced (about 10 million Kwh per year). As well, the oven concept reduces the quantity of residual aluminium-oxides and emissions into the air.
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2570 DUFFEL
Belgium