Hand dismantling and shredding of Japanese automobiles to determine material contents and metal recoveries. Report of investigations/1984

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6555541

Sterner, J W; Steele, D K; Shirts, M B

The Bureau of Mines conducted studies on four makes of Japanese automobiles, three 1981 and one 1982 model years, received from three manufacturers to determine if their materials composition would present problems to the current technology used to process junk automobiles for metal recovery. One of each make of automobile was hand-dismantled to determine the materials composition. In addition, two nearly identical automobiles of each make were shredded at a commercial operation where all metal products and rejects were collected for analysis to determine metal and nonmetal distribution. The average weight of the four automobiles to be dismantled, less batteries, tools, and fluids, was 1,938.3 lb. There were no materials used in the manufacture of the late model Japanese automobiles that should present handling or processing problems to the steelmaking or secondary metal recyclers.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Mines, Salt Lake City, UT (USA). Salt Lake City Research Center
• OSTI ID: 6555541
• Report Number(s): PB-84-189513; BM-RI-8855
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
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AUTOMOBILES
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
ELEMENTS
INDUSTRY
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS RECOVERY
METAL INDUSTRY
METALS
PROCESSING
RECOVERY
RECYCLING
TESTING
VEHICLES
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING