Innovative Devices, Software Tools And Integrated Software And Hardware Architecture In Solid Waste Recycling

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Processing technologies addressed to recover different products from complex waste, characterized by the presence of different materials and associated contaminants, need to be extremely powerful, since they must be relatively simple to be cost-effective, but also accurate enough to create high-purity products and able to valorize a substantial fraction of the waste materials into useful products of consistent quality in order to be economical. On the other hand, the potential market for such technologies is large and the boost of environmental regulations has made many industries interested both in “general purpose” waste sorting technologies, as well as in developing more specialized sensing devices and/or inspection logics for a better quality assessment of specific products. The development of these actions passes through: i) the definition of advanced sorting techniques able to deal with complex associations of materials and ii) a suitable design rules in adequacy with the technological limits of the sorting processes existing in the recycling industry. The lecture is addressed to present innovative devices, software tools and integrated software and hardware architecture in solid waste recycling finalized to perform a full quality control of fed/recovered waste streams through the definition of new sorting and/or control logics that could be profitably applied, in “on-line” control architectures, at industrial plant level.

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