Design And Manufacturing Of Oil Separator.

Mechanical Engineering

Metals such as Fe, Al, etc. are widely used in manufacturing to produce almost all kinds of industrial and consumer products. Each year, a huge amount of metal chip solid waste is generated from the manufacturing industry. These manufacturing chips, mixed with cutting fluid, are difficult to recycle. Current manufacturing companies either landfill these wastes or pay a third party to haul them away, causing both environmental and economic issues. As widely recognized recycling these metal chip wastes could enhance the economic profit and reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing. Because these metal chips are a mixture of different materials, the first step for recycling is to separate different metals from each other, while until today there is a lack of effective and economical ways to separate these metal chip mixtures on an industrial scale. As most of the manufacturing metal chips are composed of Fe and Al, ; in this study, a combined hydrodynamic and electromagnetic approach is used to separate the Fe and Al metals in the wasted mixture, based on the different moving behaviours of different metal chips resulting from their different sizes and density in the coupled magnetic and hydrodynamic field. The motion of the metal chips in a fluid- electromagnetic coupled field will be simulated by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Per the simulated different motion behaviour and experimental separation results of metal chips, the effectiveness and efficiency of the metal chips separation will be investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Composition of the metal chip mixture before and after the experiment will be analysed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) method.

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