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Download or read book Investigation of Surface Treatment and Density Separation for Selective Recycling of Plastics written by Adilbek Baigabelov and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Froth flotation has been a useful method for flotation separation of plastics. Teeter bed concentration may also be potentially employed to accomplish gravity-based separation of plastics from a mixture. This work investigates selective separation of six different types of plastics using a novel method by combining advanced gravity concentration and froth flotation techniques. Surface active reagents were used during flotation studies for modification of surface properties of certain plastics in order to enhance selectivity. Elutriation technology in a teeter bed separator was successfully employed to achieve gravity-based concentration of certain plastics. The novel flowsheet was shown to recover plastics of each individual type with reasonably high efficiency and selectivity.