Design of a plastic / rubber shredder machine for recycling and management of waste

Mechanical Engineering

The world is facing a huge crisis of waste management. The amount of plastic waste is increasing with a very high rate. In order to tackle the problem of plastic waste management, the plastic should be recycled. In this project stage we are going design a machine which is able to shred the plastic and rubber material. For designing the shredder machine Blade is an important part. If we design a blade which has High fundamental frequency and more stiffness the blade life lasts longer. In this stage of project, we are going to design a digital 3D model of shredder blade and we are going to modal analyze the for finding the fundamental frequency. Also, in this project it describes about the experimentation of plastic and rubber waste cutting machine and analysis of cutting blade tooth with respective thickness and teeth position. We are making this project model for recycling of plastic and rubber wastage in domestic area; industries as well as it can be useful for plastic-soil bricks or rubber - soil bricks. A comparative study of burnt brick and plastic/ rubber -concrete bricks is done to showcase the advantage of plastic/ rubber -concrete bricks in areas of strength, weight, economy, etc. Compression strength test was performed on the plastic/ rubber -concrete bricks in ANSYS.

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