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Upcycling of Waste Jelly-Filled Communication Cables (폐 젤리충진 통신케이블 업사이클링 연구)

  • Cho, Sungsu;Lee, Sooyoung;Hong, Myunghwan;Seo, Minhye;Lee, Dukhee;Uhm, Sunghyun
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2015
  • A feasibility test was carried out for upcycling of waste jelly-filled communication cables together with the development of environmentally friendly processes and equipments. High pressure water injection is proved to be an exceptionally environmentally friendly and highly efficient mechanical process. A batch-type cable barking equipment is designed and built on the basis of computational fluid dynamics modelling. It is optimized in terms of energy consumption and productivity with very high copper recovery of 99.5%. Copper nano-powder is prepared by an electrical wire explosion in ethanol media in order to improve the value of final products, and the preliminary economical assessment is also conducted.