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Manual (Pre-)treatment – Process Details
- The cooling equipment has been accepted.
- The cooling equipment is in storage waiting to be processed.
- The production employee unload the cooling equipment, according to instruction I III 11A and fills out F III 11A.
- First the production employee cuts off the cable.
- If it is not cooling equipment the production employee informs the shift leader. He decides to continue or to refuse the load. See P II 11.
- When continuing the non-cooling equipment will be stored and processed elsewhere.
- The production employee manually takes off hazardous material and waste.
- The production employee sorts out the ammonia fridges. The ammonia fridges will stored to be processed elsewhere. The production employee drains the compressor of the cooling equipment according to I III 11B.
- The production employee cuts the compressor of the cooling equipment according to I III 11C/E.
- The production employee checks inside the fridge for glass or heavy parts according to I III 11C/E.
- The production employee sorts out the glass wool fridges. The glass wool fridges will be stored to be processed elsewhere.
- When the plant has no possibility to process pentane fridges, he sorts out the pentane fridges. The pentane fridges will stored to be processed elsewhere.
- The result is a cooling appliance ready for further mechanical treatment.
- P III 21 describes how the cooling equipment is mechanically treated.
- How to store and ship all the sorted out materials is described in P IV 11.
Mechanical Treatment – Process Details
- The cooling equipment has been unloaded and dismantled according P III 11.
- The cooling equipment is ready to be shredded. Before the fridge can be shredded the fridge line needs to be turned on. Maintenance is responsible and instructions can be found in D III 21A.
- The production employee puts the cooling equipment on the conveyor belt leading it into the shredder. The cooling equipment is shredded.
- After shredding the cooling equipment now a material flow. Out of this flow first the PU foam is separated by suction.
- At this step iron pieces are taken out with a magnet.
- An extra step of PU separation follows.
- With an eddy current the non-ferrous ( cupper and aluminium) are separated from the plastics.
- The plastic are granulated again.
- An extra step of PU separation follows.
- The extracted PU foam goes trough a cyclone to take the big parts out.
- A dust filer follows to take the dust out.
- The dust and PU are colleted in a bunker. With a screw this fraction is let to a PU grinder.
- The grinded PU is heated afterwards to make it release more CFC’s.
- There is suction on the shredding, grinding and heating of PU to capture the release CFC’s into this airflow. This airflow is treated in order to take all CFCs out.
- In P III 22 this air treatment is describe in a more detailed. The production chief notes all the production results on form F III 21A. The production employee can give input for the produced weights true F III 21B.
- The result of these steps above is clean air and fractions of plastic, iron, non-ferrous, PU powder. These fractions will stored according to P IV 11.
Display Units – Process Details
- The TVs & monitors have been accepted.
- The TVs & monitors are in storage waiting to be processed.
- The production employee unload the TVs & monitors, according instruction I III 12A and form F III 12A
- First the production employee cuts off the cable.
- If it is not TVs & monitors equipment the production employee informs the shift leader. He decides to continue or to refuse the load. See P II 11.
- When continuing the non TVs & monitors will be stored and processed elsewhere.
- The production employee places the TVs & monitors on the conveyor belt.
- The production employee removes all materials form the tube according to instruction I III 12B.
- If the glass does not need to be separated it goes into the mixed glass container.
- When the glass need to be separated, the result are ready to be split CRTs.
- Another result is ready to be shredded plastic.
- The tubes and plastic will be mechanical treated according P III 22.
- All the sorted out materials result in fraction to be stored &shipped according to P IV 11.
LHA, SDA and IT (cat 3) – Process Details
- There are stored SDA & ICT goods.
- These goods need to be unloaded and decontaminated.
- The production employee checks whether the SDA & ICT goods need to be decontaminated or if this has already been done.
- When the order still needs to be decontaminated, then the production employee unloads the SDA & ICT into the bunker. See I III 14A&B.
- The production employee will remove all hazardous waste and unsuitable materials out conform I III 14C.
- The production employee sorts out the SDA and ICT.
- The production employee drains the oil from the sorted out radiator conform I III 14D.
- The result of step 3 & 6 is decontaminated SDA ready to be shredded.
- The result of step3 & 6 is decontaminated ICT ready to be shredded. The production employee notes all the produced weights on form F III 14A and form F III 14B.
- P III 23 describes the mechanical treatment of the SDA & ICT.
- P III 21 describes the dismantling of TVs & monitors.
- P III 11 describes the dismantling of fridges.
- P IV 11 describes the storage of materials.