ECOWAIR - Water, air and Mud treatments

The most advanced system to break batteries, separate and recover the components

Scope of the equipment:
To give all battery collectors, car knackers, battery producers, and dealers, the big advantages to recycle the battery components, earn money from this, and preserve the environment from battery pollution.

Presentation:
coming out from the Italian long time experience on the field, we are presenting, our recycling plant for the lead batteries.

The environment safeguard and the materials recycle now is an obligation and a business opportunity.

This thought is a must for all leaving people that want to preserve the nature, increase the life’ quality’ and -why not- save and earn money from waste.

All battery producers and cars disposal have this opportunity. A lot of them, may be also you, are already doing that, and every day more people is asking to enter in this market. Also Governments are pushing and financing the recycling of materials.

If we consider the reduction of mines, the sharply increasing cost for row materials, and the taxation for waste that goes up every day too, we can confirm: recycle is convenient!!! And we can help on this with our experience,  know how and machinery.

It is a simple concept: recycle the most part of the lead, the light plastic and the oxide past of the spent batteries.


This multiple unit is studied to be able to process the batteries in this way:
- empty the electrolyte, filter it and eventually concentrate it
- crush the batteries in small pieces
- separate the main components:
- grids and poles
- lead paste
- polypropylene
- heavy plastic (separators)

The crushing and the separation is done using energy and water.

The water is constantly reused so to reduce consumption. This allows the plant to be placed everywhere

The crushed pieces of batteries are washed to remove all sulphuric acid pollution, so we have:

- Lead, grids and poles, clean and with purity from  98% to 99%, to be processed or sold
- Polypropylene washed, to be sold
- Lead paste from grids, collected and drained (up to 14% w. content) to be sold or processed
- Heavy plastic (agm and poliethilene separators, wood etc) collected to go to disposal
- Electrolyte filtered can be re-used or sold

MATERIAL BALANCE:
HYPOTHETIC 200  TONS DAY

weight     materials  %
55,6    27,8% grids/poles
72     36,0% paste S = 6,5%
11,2         5,6% polypropylene
16,4     8,2% Separators, PVC, Rubber,
44,8    22,4% electrolyte: as 85% water, 15% acid

T200    100,0% LEAD BATTERIES

So you can calculate easily the return on investment and the payback time only looking to lead market price*T day produced.

After this first part, complete and ecologically  friendly, is possible to set up an unit with  some kettles and or a rotary furnace, to  process the lead to have bullions and alloys.

This part depends on the factory layout, the  quantity of battery to process monthly and  the investment capacity.

We can support the customer to tailor the  correct dimensions of the breaker, the  separation station, the utilities, and the right  shape of th rotary furnace with the kettles to  produce alloys.

Following our relationship with battery  producers, we can help the negotiations for the  placement of materials like lead, polypropylene  and lead paste.