Pretreatment of Automotive Shredder Residues, Their Chemical Characterisation, and Pyrolysis Kinetics

Sandhya Kuruvalan Vijayan, Mahmud Arman Kibria, Md Hemayet Uddin and Sankar Bhattacharya
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Sandhya Kuruvalan Vijayan: Chemical Engineering Department, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
Mahmud Arman Kibria: Chemical Engineering Department, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
Md Hemayet Uddin: Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
Sankar Bhattacharya: Chemical Engineering Department, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 19, 1-19

Abstract: Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR), a waste when metals are mostly removed from end-of-life vehicles, has constituents similar to municipal solid waste (MSW) consisting of plastics, rubber, textiles, and some metals. The processing of ASR is a challenge due to its heterogeneous nature, making feeding to a reactor difficult. In this work, a new procedure of ASR pretreatment is proposed to bring particulate nature in the sample for easier feeding during pyrolysis. The thermal breakdown characteristics of the pretreated ASR solids under slow pyrolysis conditions were assessed in a thermogravimetric analyser following the International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ICTAC) kinetics committee recommendations. The effect of particle sizes and heating rates were studied at temperatures up to 800 °C at different heating rates of 2, 5, and 10 °C/min for three particle sizes, 38–63 µm, 63–90 µm, and 90–106 µm, and the kinetic data were derived. The volatiles emitted during pyrolysis were characterized by Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Spectroscopy (DRIFTS). We also developed an algorithm for the selection of heating rate during the pyrolysis of the pretreated ASR. The DRIFTS results, kinetic data, and heating rate for the selected particle sizes are useful for the development of a pyrolysis process for pretreated ASR.

Keywords: automotive shredder residue; pretreatment; DRIFTS; kinetic model analysis; pyrolysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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