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Application of disc screen for wastepaper recycling: evaluation of influential parameters

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Recycling of wastepaper is an effective way to achieve the sustainable paper manufacturing regarding sustainable development goals. Focusing on the mixed wastepaper sorting, recovery of suitable papers for deinking purpose and minimizing the impurities were developed in this study. In a wastepaper sorting process, each equipment has its own role in increasing recycling performance. In this study, disc screen was applied and evaluated for sorting of the mixed wastepaper considering independent variables such as inclination, velocity and moisture content. Response surface method was applied for design of the experiments. Sorting efficiency of 100% was achieved in two conditions: 1–20% inclination, 20 Hz velocity and 5% moisture content; 2–10% inclination, 20 Hz velocity and 0% moisture content. It can be concluded that the adverse effect of wastepaper’s moisture can be compensated via adjusting the disc screen’s inclination and rotation velocity. Indeed, disc screen is a feasible approach for efficient sorting of wet and dry mixed wastepaper increasing the recovery rate and enhancing the performance of the subsequent sorting units. This process can provide a better feed with higher quality for the subsequent steps, e.g. paper spike as well as sensor and manual sorting by decreasing the sorting load and impurities.

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Acknowledgements

Iran’s National Elites Foundation financially supported this study under the contract No. 29818/D31. The authors are also grateful to Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran for providing technical and financial support. The technical and scientific support of professor Thomas Pretz in the previous project (“SortOptAP”; project number KF3040901WM2), which was the basis of this project, is highly appreciated.

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  1. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    A. Rezaee, G. Moussavi & M. Moradi

  2. Department of Processing and Recycling, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    A. Feil

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of |Technology, Tehran, Iran

    R. Norouzzadeh & K. Azami

  4. Technical Management Office, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    K. Keshavarz

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Rezaee, A., Moussavi, G., Feil, A. et al. Application of disc screen for wastepaper recycling: evaluation of influential parameters. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 19, 4923–4930 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03689-1

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