Plastic Recycling and PVC Dewatering with Decanter Centrifuges
Decanter Centrifuge Systems Allow for Participation in Sustainable Recycling Practices, While Providing Profit Opportunities from Plastic Waste!
Individuals worldwide produce a yearly average of nearly 30 kilograms of plastic waste per person—in some developed countries, that waste reaches as high at half a kilogram of plastic waste per person per day! Archer Separation is prepared to provide you with a means to combat this growing quantity of plastic waste, allowing you to engage in sustainable environmental practices while providing an opportunity to make a profit from the results of separating this waste plastic and microplastics from your water system. We provide decanter centrifuges, tools, and expertise that make a decanter centrifuge the best plastic recycling and dewatering solution available.
It is sometimes taken for granted how complex even the simple concept of recycling can actually be. Plastic goods often contain mixed varieties of metals amid their plastics—ABS, PVC, and PET only a few of the complex array of plastic sub-varieties to be separated and processed. Seemingly straightforward items like toys, diapers, packaging, carpeting and clothing can actually present difficulties for plastic recycling projects. Soft goods especially are often a combination of polyamide fibers with polypropylene binding agents (PA and PP, respectively), sometimes including other plastic types in combination.
So, saying that extraction and separation of plastic is extremely complex and all but impossible to perform without mechanical separation systems is quite the understatement! It is absolutely worth installing a plastic separation system— the most commonly disposed (non-traditionally recycled) good is clothing; polyester and nylon fabrics are the most valuable component of most plastic waste, so extracting it from waste streams and water sources is doubly valuable! By recapturing and recycling polyamide and polyethylene fibers, operators make the most profit while eliminating one of the most common forms of wasted plastic. At Archer Separation, we believe it's best to take advantage of materials as durable (and reusable!) as plastic as much as possible, and are prepared to provide our decades of experience in decanter centrifuge systems to optimize your unique needs.
Applications of a Decanter Centrifuge in Plastic Recycling and Dewatering Systems
All-in-one cleaning, filtration and separation
Because plastic waste comes in a variety of sizes, repurposing small pieces of different density or material into appropriate agglomerates is an obstacle not well suited to by-hand sorting. A decanter centrifuge can be fitted with tools to induce greater sedimentation of these pieces, or select for particular sizes; in other words, sorting the plastic pieces by size and density automatically as part of the existing rinsing and dewatering system! In addition, a decanter centrifuge loses the least amount of useable product as part of a dedicated plastic dewatering system. This saves you the time, space and cost of several dedicated cleaning filtration systems, letting your plastics filtration system take advantage of a decanter centrifuge's constant rate of operation and smaller footprint.
Ease of Testing, Installation and Upkeep
Archer Separation offers decades of experience in tuning and optimizing decanter centrifuges. Now, technology has improved to the point that one of our partners, HAUS, provides a mobile centrifuge kit, no larger than a small shipping container. By using mobile test units, exact specifications can be determined using your facility's precise processes, removing guesswork and setup complications. This plastic recycling centrifuge solution works alone long-term, or as a pilot test for a larger installation if you choose to increase your plastic recycling and dewatering output. It even allows Archer Separation to perform modifications and troubleshooting to your decanter centrifuge system remotely.
Improved Product Purity
In addition to sustainably clarifying and de-contaminating water, decanter centrifuges are also an asset for plastic product clarity. Improvements in decanter technology, tools and components maximize the separation of dirt, debris and contaminants from separated plastic, allowing for the maximum capture of valuable plastic and maximized equipment and product cleanliness. Cleaner product is cheaper to work with and is worth more as a repurposed product—the economical benefits of a decanter centrifuge for plastics dewatering and recycling is crystal clear (or perhaps one might say plastic clear).
Petrochemical industry value
The petrochemical industry is among the world's largest manufacturing industries, if not the largest, with a market size exceeding USD $600 billion; with an industry of that scale, recapturing and repurposing petrochemical goods is as crucial as manufacturing them in the first place. Cost-saving measures in particular have a disproportionate level of impact on petrochemical facilities, and decanter centrifuges are one of the industry's key pieces of petrochemical cost saving technology. Decanter centrifuges allow for recapture of plastic solids as well as separating the water from the plastic waste to be recycled. With the residual water minimized, costs are saved on thermal drying processes afterwards, meaning less resources are spent on reprocessing—making recycling that much more efficient.
Treatment of microplastic-rich water
Removal and prevention of microplastics in water sources is an ongoing concern. A liter of bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic particles; though some brands may be better than others at avoiding plastic contamination, a well-separated tap water is the safest solution to avoiding microplastics, and is best achieved at both facility or full treatment system scale with the application of a decanter centrifuge system. Decanter centrifuges separate water from solids using G-forces, not just filters; without the restrictions of physical filtration, even tiny particles like plastics are fully separated through forced sedimentation, keeping water re-usable or drinkable while keeping the plastic where it should be—agglomerated with other plastic(s) for repurposing.
Archer Separation provides these tools and industry experience, working with you to provide a plastic recycling system suited to your facility's needs. Installation of a decanter centrifuge for your plastic recycling or dewatering applications is the industry-leading way to apply technology for ecological and economical benefit, keeping waterways and water systems clean while also maximizing the yield of recyclable plastics in a growing industry that's increasingly focused on re-use of materials.
We understand your plastic recycling and dewatering needs, and will meet those needs with the best technology available!
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