Method for separating large-sized film-like plastics
AssigneeMitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
InventorsKozo Saitoh, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tatsuya Nagahama, Sumio Izumi
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Abstract
A method for separating large-sized film-like plastics, such as polypropylene or polyvinyl chloride, which comprises placing the plastics in a separation tank containing an aqueous liquid medium and introducing gas bubbles into the tank thereby to cause the gas bubbles to adhere to the surface of the plastics. The buoyancy of the gas bubbles causes the plastics to rise to the medium surface. Addition of a flotation agent and/or a wetting agent further promotes the floating of the plastics.
Claims9
A method for separating plastic film-like particles of differing wettability, said particles having a size of from about 10 to about 100 mm, which comprises introducing gas bubbles into a dispersion of said particles in an aqueous liquid medium;
- causing greater members of gas bubbles to adhere to the surfaces of the less wettable particles thereby substantially selectively floating said less wettable particles to the surface of the liquid medium;
- said plastics being selected from the group consisting of polypropylene, polystyrene, soft polyvinyl chloride, hard polyvinyl chloride, a polyamide, a polyacrylate, a phenolic and a melamine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.