Apparatus and method for fractionating alloy components in recycled alloy
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorHee-Sam Kang
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Abstract
An apparatus for fractionating alloy components in a recycled alloy, the apparatus includes: a distillation chamber configured to heat a molten alloy, in which an alloy to be recycled containing a first metal as a base material and a second metal is melted, to evaporate the second metal; and a first metal holding furnace connected to the distillation chamber and configured to keep warm and store a molten first metal from which the second metal has been evaporated.
Claims20
An apparatus for fractionating components in a recycled alloy comprising a first metal as a base material and a second metal, the apparatus comprising:
- a distillation chamber configured to heat a molten recycled alloy to evaporate the second metal;
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- a first metal holding furnace connected to the distillation chamber and configured to keep warm and store a molten first metal from which the second metal has been evaporated.
A method for fractionating components in an alloy comprising a first metal as a base material and a second metal, the method comprising:
- melting the alloy to prepare molten alloy;
- heating the molten alloy to evaporate the second metal;
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- storing a molten first metal, from which the second metal has been evaporated, in a first metal holding furnace.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.