Hygiene article recycling unit
AssigneeDiaper Recycling Technology Pte. Ltd.
InventorMartin Scaife
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an equipment in the field of hygiene article manufacturing, in particular to a hygiene article recycling unit for disintegrating and separating hygiene articles allowing to separate raw materials at a purity allowing to directly use it in the manufacturing process of the hygiene articles. The recycling unit comprised several devices as sub-units. The present invention further relates to a process for operating such an equipment.
Claims9
A hygiene article recycling unit adapted to separate plastic material, superabsorbent polymer and pulp, if present, comprised in hygiene articles, comprising:
- an article buffer device;
- an infeed article stream equalization system;
- an article pre-destruction device;
- a shredding and separation device;
- a pulp/superabsorbent polymer (SAP) separation device that separates SAP material from pulp,
- wherein said recycling unit is adapted to provide
- recycled pulp, if present, at a purity of more than 99 w-%;
- recycled SAP material at a purity of more than 99 w-%.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.