How Is Aluminium Recycled?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Did you know, aluminium is 100% recyclable? Chances are, the computer, tablet or smart phone you’re using to view this video contains a percentage of recycled aluminium. Sustainable materials are the future, a future which aluminium plays a major part.
How is aluminium recycled? In this video, we demonstrate how scrap aluminium is recycled at our
Dormagen aluminium plant in Germany. Once recycled, the aluminium can be reused in cars, packaging, electronics and buildings.
The aluminium recycling process turns waste aluminium into new products and saves energy in the process. Find out more about how Norsk Hydro recycles and reuses scrap aluminium here:
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as a window frame enthusiast this makes me very excited for the future.
My nipples are rock hard right now.
Why my pp hard?
🤣
You are a treasure.
@Train Nerd labias get blood filled and hard to
That air jet sorter is awesome
I can just imagine the conversation between the engineer and the product manager:
PM: So the product will detect these defective objects while moving down a conveyor belt and in real time direct jets of air to deflect them.
Engineer: Yea ... ok ...
PM: And it has to fit into this tiny box .
Engineer: >.<
Pretty stinking amazing if you ask me... I would have loved to have worked on it 😍
I would be amazed watching it separate Skittles.
@@rcarmisin3465 removes the skittles that contain heavy metals from the pure skittles.
mindblown
its amazing how accurate and perfectly timed those air jets, from many industries its normal to have something so heavy, so strong, or so durable. to see something small, fast yet perfectly accurate like those air jets really amaze me
The slow-motion video of the air jet separator is beautiful :) I'd never realized that different alloys would be such a big issue for aluminium recycling.
Andy Walker it shouldn't be of they were so crazy about making certain products with it instead of just making new raw aluminum.
circusboy90210
Did you even watch the video. Making new raw aluminum takes a stunning amount of energy. Most raw aluminum manufacturers have their own power plant,,, yes that's how much power it takes. Buying virgin aluminum is very expensive compared to buying recycled aluminum, and all the different alloys have very definite purposes. I use 319 and 356 alloys for casting, and 6061 and mic 6 for machining. It's very versatile but you have to know what you need.
william Greene; couldnt they refine alloys as if it was bauxite if there was enough aluminum being recycled? They dont bc the need for new Al is so high.
The two processes are totally different, but generally what you say is true. It is very hard to get back to pure virgin aluminum once it's alloyed though, so some stuff still needs new aluminum. It just uses stupendous quantities of electricity to refine aluminum from bauxite, and I do mean stupendous. Some facilities have their own coal fired power plant.
@@TheAnantaSesa not quite how it works mate.. nice try though
I loved going to power plants and large industrial recycling centers as a network engineer. I used to take all of those field jobs just to see the processes in action. My techs loved me for it.
Does Germany have a window frame based economy?
We are really proud of our high wuality window frames... as weird as that may sound.
Aluminum acts as a heat sink. Why would one want aluminum as a window frame? To transfer heat from the outdoors to indoors and vice a versa?
@@swainer8014 Its cheap, light and strong. YOu can coat it to reduce heat heat transmission. It can't be too bad of a problem.
thx mark, best laugh i (
Germany has the best windows.
OMG - the radiation detection and extraction is amazing!!
Ya i was super impressed
Oddly enough, it's actually not all that shocking of a device... engineers going with simple and reliable on this one. Don't get me wrong, it is very cool, but it was also somewhat off the shelf if not directly off the shelf.
Why I say that is this device is almost identical to an optical food quality sorter - which have been in use for 20+ years even at some relatively modest factories. The one we had at our factory was able to reject tortillas with size/hole issues or that were over/undercooked - the only real difference with this Norsk Hydro application and the one we had is this one uses X-ray spectrum and ours was optical - but not a major difference at the end of the day... the software was doing very similar tasks for each item that passed under it.
I was hoping they had something really really novel when they said they could sort out undesirable alloys... this is cool but not Nobel-worthy. :D
I remember I first saw this on "how it's made" the Frozen French Fries edition. You should check it out, apparently this isn't extremely new tech
The mark of genius is to solve complex problems with ideas so simple they're "obvious".
beats blowing into straws/. Did that for my last job...
Glad to see Norsk Hydro find honest work after losing their heavy water facility.
We did that for years here in the U.S. The Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) recycled aluminum can stock into high purity deep draw stock (AL3008) and sent the new sheet rolls back to the canneries.
The melting, purifying, casting, rolling operation used much less energy than originally bringing AL3008 from the ore. The recycled material was also used for high speed rotary disks in computer applications.
I also worked at ALCOA’s Vernon Works in Southern California so none of this process is new to me.
Why does the flowing molten aluminum look so refreshing to drink?!
You're supposed to take a shot of it every time he says 'window frame'.
The forbidden Capri Sun
It`s beautiful.
the forbidden soda
To clarify to anyone that thinks Aluminum is just Aluminum and believe "hundreds of Alloys" are used to create one type, you are mistaken. Aluminum has dozens of grades, properties and characteristics! All grades require different blends of other alloys/minerals/metals etc to get the right properties. Which add up to hundreds of different properties. Some are better for airplanes, some better to machine, some better for salt water etc.. You get my point!
Yeah. It's like saying that "steel" is just iron and carbon and nothing else.
kevin O, yeah but aluminum is in fact aluminum.
Aluminum is a chemical element, so there really is just one kind of aluminum. An alloy cannot be aluminum, it is an alloy, just like steel is not iron.
I think it would be cheaper to not worry about the other metals and just turn it all into a lower quality recycled aluminum and sold. For parts that need a quality aluminum alloy can just buy it fresh.
People use the same word differently in different contexts... in chemistry aluminum is an element, a pure substance, but in the metal industry aluminum is an alloy, not a pure substance.
So I just learned that the only source of aluminum is window frames.
every german bite their lip when they hear the words "window frame"
Window frames, soda cans, and cars.
I've had the opportunity to design vision processors for air jet sorting wood blocks used in pencil manufacturing and another system that rolled aluminum plate, 8 feet wide, to final thickness at 5mils of precision. Another system measured huge fresh cut logs for sawing. Over twenty years ago now since I worked for Applied Scanning Technology (not the same company you find today). Ah. Good times....
It's certainly good that impurities can relatively easy be filtered out, so that the level of purity is ensured. Even with recycling, though, a lot of energy is spent in the process. It would be more ideal if parts were more standardized and perhaps stamped with a material declaration. That way you could skip much of the granulation steps, or even better, re-use parts as-is.
The world: Aluminium.
America: A-LOOM-I-NUM
And the rest of the world says it like condominium
And, who cares?
@@redmeat2ndamendment695 You cared enough to comment my boy.
A fascinating subject. That machine they use that uses air to sort out the bots of metal is amazing. But I do wonder what would happen if your head got stuck there while it was on.
Just what the world needs, more window frames. Can never have enough window frames.
This seems like a process that could scale up relatively easily.
I wonder if they work with window frames
I've just learned something interesting about everyday items.
"How many polyesters did you have to kill to make that suit?" Steve Martin
To save the planet, we will have to close the cycle on many, many more materials. Looks like Germany has this one down pat. Awesome process!
8:17 I just see this and for some reason I think "a lot of T-1000s have been sent to the slaughterhouse prior, eh?"
Amazing! I love the smart way of this incredible machinery. I would also like it very much to work in that metal melting factory 😁✌🏻✌🏻
Do you have any video with UBC (used beverage cans) without use of primary aluminum in the recycling process? There are two different alloys: AA3104 for body can (CBS: can body stock) and AA5182 for pull tab (CES: can end stock). The chemistry is lower than window frames that is AA 6000 series.
That starting phrase "old cans make new cans" is just a marketing wank lobbyists spread. It's almost never true.
I can't imagine this is done on a significant scale outside of the lab. The combination of alloys in a single products makes it very difficult. It needs to be sorted, and you only get a few grams of aluminium for each operation, but a lot of dross and impurities.
They probably mostly go into cast aluminium, where pretty much all low grade aluminium grades go.
window frames are the future of mankind, all hail window frames, the reason?
1) window frame
2) window frame(s)
3) windows
4) frames
5) window frames
I prefer Linux
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That slow mo air jet separation had me mesmerized
the can body is a different alloy than the top. so how do you separate the 2 types of alloys? is it just combined when repurposing it?
Very interesting and informative video.
Despite the special focus on aluminium window frames, this video was pretty good
It’s not so much that aluminum is abrasive, but the aluminum oxide that forms on the outside of the metal. We make abrasive belts and disks for grinding steel out of aluminum oxide. Most “sand paper” doesn’t use actual sand but aluminum oxide.
I have always liked to see metal be recycled it is interesting to see how they make things from waste
If the plant could separate aluminium from the aluminum, that would be great. (it's said 25 times ;D
I think dude was stroking himself while he was talking about window frames
I find this fascinating 👍👏
But the main question is, why do windows have to be recycled? The best for the environment would be if houses last. Another option would be to repurpose. I built a greenhouse for my wife out of old windows. It was her idea and it turned out great, nothing went to the scrap heap and the greenhouse that we built will last tens of times longer than any made from cheap polycarbonate or weak minimal cross-section aluminium. That said, it is great when recycling works well and the engineers that designed this process are doing good.
I'll be damned. Brilliant solution, I was expecting it would be an electromagntic solution, but Xrays are ingenious. I looked up aluminum can recycling and they do something very similar, but not with Xrays. Very cool software tracking the chips and driving the air jets.
I have seen this solution used for other products as well.
Particularly sorting good and bad eggs/fruits/vegetables
How much aluminum did it take to make that recycling plant?
I am impressed with the German investment in this forward-thinking recycling technology and look forward to its rapid and widespread adoption worldwide.
except for Arizona, as it doesn't recycle much of anything. ZZZZZ was just there; couldn't believe it.
What is it - "aluminum"?
Is that something similar to aluminium? 🤔
Roxeth London Apiary
'i' don't know... 'i'll look 'i'nto 'i't..... 🤨
Aluminum is used mainly in the United States. Aluminium is used by European nations.
They say aluminum in the us but in most of europe there's the extra iu/io
Hey Andre Ledo, there is no need to be condescending and insulting. All of those involved in this conversation already know the differences between transatlantic usage. You, on the other hand, have completely missed the ironic undertone of this particular discourse.
The point is the jarring incongruousness: Why does an European company producing a video about European technology employ an American speaker who cannot properly pronounce "Aluminium" as is scripted - the central word about which this whole video turns?
+benedict de silva hello i was condescending and insulting because the Op was condescending as well and i stand by my comment i believe op is simply being a dick. Now to your question, i am european and i personally use "Aluminium" but as you said yourself there are differences between transatlantic usage and does it really bother me that he says aluminum? No that would be like a british person telling someone that's american they have no idea what a "color" is do you get my point?
Always wondered how a plumbus was made.
I work here in there North America division the plants here are not this high tech
They're surely not as high tech. I work at one of Norsk Hydros Aluminum Plants in the Anodizing Department in Delhi Louisiana it's an awesome job. Its amazing the things that they do with aluminum
We're too lazy to go to all that bother to sort it, plus lots of windows are made from pvc / vinyl nowadays.
Do they do the same process for different grades of scrap stainless steel?
When I have taken aluminum to the recylcing they want all the screws out
@hell on earth dude do you know how much parts they have to deal with and how limited human resource they have
@csknives2140 It doesn't matter anymore. I threw the window into the river.
@@redwater4778 wow littering is so cool everyone likes you now
@@Misha-dr9rh You have something to say about it ?? You never recycled anything before !!
do window frames wear out that often? maybe I should change mine.
al-u-min-ium 😁
New drinking game. One shot each time he says "aloominun", and a shot and a beer each time he says, "window frame".
you neglected to mention that the metals used to make the aluminum alloys did not have to be mined. how much less carbon dioxide was created by that?
Holy crap that is some set up.. Not cheap.. But really cool and provides a lot of jobs for the people plus profits plus a product.. NICE ,. I wish we had that at every garbage dump in the world.
This helps me in my work I got an A+.
Thank you
This is cool
So what is the error rate of the air jet separator?
Great to see the 6063 being recycled and used again and again
That's looks very hot! What energy are they using to make that heat?
@@joeylawn36111 What energy drives electricity in order to make it hot enough?
So I have a question. If they are recycling "windows frames" why are the "window frames" unsuitable to make more "windows frame" due to heavy metals not suitable for "window frames"?
thanks for beingfor being a leading country
8:55 My man Christian has the most rediculous job out of anyone on the plant! Even the person making subtitled doesn't know what he does!
Umweltbundesamt translates as Federal Environment Office. A Federal Environment OfficeR is a
Bundesumweltbeauftragter which is slightly confusing.
The visitor tag makes me think he doesn't really work there.
Nice work ik watching from biafra nation from west africa
Germany has a lot to teach us!
So this entire process of recycling aluminium takes less CO2 to produce, than taking new aluminium out of the ground and refining it?
Thank you for the video, Germany. :)
How much does this whole recycling plant cost to build?
So where does the Aluminum alloys containing Zinc, Copper and other undesirable metals, for window frames, end up?
Door frames, But that,s for another video
That's funny. They use a similar technique in peanut factories. The camera looks at the peanuts and the blower pops off the bad peanuts.
That xray sorter is awesome. . . and here I sit with fifty year old window frames. .
No wonder there's not a lot of places recycle. It's pretty a complex to separate these without proper machines and tools.
I like the fact of recycling, but making a judgement to say cans for cans or cars for cars, is a bit pick, it can all be done Once recycling has been completed.
Rumor has it they can actually make window frames out of aluminum now.
cans almost never turn back into cans, cars never turn back into cars, but yes window frames can be turned into frames usually because they require a certain type of aluminum
中国最为最大的再生铝生产国，仍有很多技术问题需要解决。再生铝应用更高效更高级，需要更好的前端预处理。有了高级别的原料预处理，意味着更高效的原料采购和更低的成本。也意味着可以在市场中采购更多复杂的原料。这一点在中国原料竞争中非常重要。在某个时期内，再生铝的发展就是“原料，原料，原料”
If the price of scrap aluminium was higher there would be fewer cans in hedgerows
Most of the window frames in the US are vinyl.
I think he likes window frames😂😂
Good job now we need to come up with recycling cars and cars tires refrigerator and computers laptops and phones then we will be living a clear environment
Very few know that the entire global economy actually runs on window frames
Typical German efficiency, spot-on 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Mining starts in Brazil, and it's killing the people there (children, elderlies, all), food and living things in the soil, air, and sea.
This video doesn't show the vast amount of land that is mined.
I hope these people stand up and other people for those poor communities where the rich tries to cover things up, but it won't be forever. Truth always comes out in the end.
Much love.
God Bless
Didn’t realize window frames had such high volume & turn around.🤔
I have also a plant of aluminium recycling. Nd make ingots. 300MT per day
Why hasn't PVC replaced aluminum?
The air jets are a good idea.
Kool I work for Gibbs die casting .your company would send us ( am 50) to our plant in Harlingen Gibbs tex on grimes st .
Anyone else feel like going out and buying some window frames after this?
Unfortunately, there is no circular economy possible for energy consumption. Even if materials could be 100% recycled (which is impossible), the whole circular process consumes energy.. energy that required the release of CO2 emissions. So it's not a silver bullet.
Happy Two Millions view to this
What rules about aluminum is its the most abundant metal on Earth, we havent even come close to using all the aluminum on the planet, and if we recycle it more and more, we will need less mining/digging and it can be recycled indefinitely.
Aluminium is not an alloy. Is a metal by itself. An alloy is a mixture of two or more metals forged together. If aluminium is mixed with another metal to form alloy, it is no longer called aluminium.
Why high radiation levels? Surely the metals have different melting points - why not separate them by smelting then make the ingot of all of the metals right there? Even if they just skimmed the aluminum off during smelting wouldn't that save time, effort, and exposure to radiation and get them a purer product?
The main issue with melting it all down and trying to separate the contents is that the aluminum they are trying to separate is a random combination of alloys. The way alloys are made is by melting a bunch of the main metal down and tossing in the other metals,melting and stirring it all together. Melting to separate the contents would be next to impossible as they would just melt into 1 mixture. You might be able to have fractional cooling, like in oil but it is very difficult (if not impossible) to do so with materials that are solid at any survivable temperature. using an automated system with air and a pile of lead is much cheaper to run, and probably safer having an xray machine in a box than a continuous metal distillation tower.
All of the material they have is also mainly aluminum, so all of the materials have similar melting points, which means even just trying to separate by the moment they liquify, most would recombine anyway, leading to the separating of alloy issues again. Brass and bronze, for the same reason cannot be easily unmade, nor can steel be easily changed into any desired type of steel either
Super process
long live the window frames
my favorite is when he's explaining all this cool technology, and finds a way to loop back and mention window frames. haha :P
"How many polyesters did you have to kill to make that suit?" Steve Martin
same
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Good job now we need to come up with recycling cars and cars tires refrigerator and computers laptops and phones then we will be living a clear environment
Recycling cars is done in France,
Recycling tires is done in France
Recycling computers and laptops is done in France
Recycling phones is done in France
Nothing is done in America
America's are stupid shitheads
Are we supposed to drink every time he says window frames?
No - only every time he says 'Al-um-in-um' instead of the normal Aluminium.
That's not a drinking game. That's an alcohol poisoning game.
Gareth Ifan he’s saying aluminum right
@@jcgaming645 Err..no..he's not. There's an 'i' missing there.
@@garethifan1034 LOL al-um-in-um is the normal was for most english speaking people. I personally like al-loo-MIN-ee-um too, it's fun to say.
Window frames, window frames, window frames
It's 6061 series aluminum, or Extrusion by name.
HooDooed Tanker is a
In the late 60's most of the houses in BC had single pane Alunminium slider windows, no screen. We all upgraded to sealed dual panel windows with pvc frames. We saved a lot on the heating bill. Did not last long. The hydro and gas companies had their expenses, union rates go up etc. So as we spend a lot of money to upgrade insulation, new overpriced LED bulbs, electric and gas bill rates jumped up to cancell any savings.
He said 6060
developers developers developers
In order to make window frames: Start with window frames.
stonk
i had a drink every time he said "wiiindow frames" aaaaand now i have abut 18 beer cans to contribute to the recycling program
In just a few weeks those cans can be window frames!
@@TheOtherBill *NO! FRAMES TO FRAMES. CANS TO CANS. CARS TO CARS. DID YOU NOT LISTEN??? YOU WILL DESTABILIZE THE ALLOY!*
To bad you can't recycle your liver.
Yet.
Drink everytime he says unsuitable
Thatll be Coors light. Right? I challenge you to drink 18 cans of Abbott Ale and still be able to type
8:54 Frodo is super excited to be in his new job.
now he can melt everything he wants without months of travel and fear of getting killed by an assassin
Apparently window frames are very prone to wearing out and be replaced weekly
glazier here
They last about 10-20 years so all the windows built before the great housing market colapse are starting to fail
@@zachgaines8349 Serious question: What kind of crap frames only last that long? I've got wood/vinyl frames that are 40+ years and still fine, and all wood frames that are over 100 years old. Only reason they ever get replaced is to move to double panes.
@@TheOtherBill I'm in a very humid area. Aluminum corrodes stupid fast, same with wood. Vinyl lifespan isnt hurt much by this but they arent great to start with.
This is also worn out to the stanards of commercial applications like storefronts and rental units. They get replaced for purely cosmetic wear all the time
@@zachgaines8349 another glazier here. Is it the aluminium corroding from the environment, or are the frames in contact with steel or concrete?
Im in the heartland so I dont have the same humidity problems, am young, and quite curious
@@TheOtherBill my house was built in 72. The frames still look like brand new
Metal recycling in US:
1. demolition, collection and compaction
2. load them into ships
3. China
That's great for our trade balance, and people forget that in proportion to population the US is a manufacturing giant. The more we sell of anything overseas the better for our economy and Beijing can keep the pollution.
Waste is evil and must be exported to someone who dont care or this was my initial thought -In some ways US is 3 world country .I guess this is about freedom for waste -your loss
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isn't it amazing how much cheaper the process is to make things, yet the cost of goods has been constantly rising faster than wages have?
Back in the day you could work at a gas station and still own a home - now? Good fuckin luck, specially with housing costs on the rise. I was making 48 an hour in Mississauga, Ontario and still had difficulty renting a 1 bedroom apartment, was average 1800 for a 1 bedroom apartment, I managed to find one that wasn't in a basement and it was 2200 a month.
That, plus average house cost at 800,000.. Thats fucking insane
Then when things are affordable people get worried, no, we want things affordable - we want someone at minimum wage to still have some spending cash, someone at a decent wage to be able to go on vacations and buy shit, someone at an excellent wage to live a great life.
Right now minimum wage can't live, Decent wage barely lives, Excellent wage lives - but enough to not stress about finances.
What the hell is going on? How does this get fixed? Can't fight greed when its controlling everything.
Since the trade war with China, the scrap price of aluminum is way low. All metals were affected, but aluminum is really in the toilet.
The local scrap yards near me pay about the same for aluminum window frames, castings, or old boats.
@Xtreme Performance
Thanks, I'll check it out.
As a matter of fact, back in the mid 80's I worked at an aluminum extrusion plant where we made the parts for doors and windows. Trust me when I say this, it was a hot dirty business. I worked on the main press where the extruded parts were cut up and sent to the anodizing department. We were just a few dozen feet from the heating oven for the logs which ran at 900 degrees F and the press which ran at the same temperature. Behind us was the aging oven which ran at 500 to 600 degrees F and we were only a couple dozen feet from it. This in the middle of Mississippi summer where the temperature runs about 95 to 100 degrees + with a humidity of about 85 to 98%. It was so hot, we were required to stop every 2 hours and cool off in the workers eating area that was air conditioned. I would go into work at 6:30 AM and look decent. I came out at 4:00 PM looking like a drowned rat! Covered in sweat and black residue from the aluminum. Man that was a hard job.
Did it pay well at least?
Bence Jávorszki-Farkas Those types of jobs typically do (in the US at the very least). Many hazardous jobs in general do. Garbage men where I live make welllll over $100,000 a year.
Never tried rat before
@@carlthronson8737 it tastes like chicken
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Hello. I have a question. Is it possible to make window frames from recycled metal?
I think or window frame chips or something I know this if they have a window frame plant. Do they have an individual plant for each product made of aluminum ie window frames, cans, heatsinks, window frames, car rims, and oh yeah window frames
Dumb ass.
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*Nice sorting factory.*
We need such factories in every country that has aluminum waste.
Germany please export this factory as a product !
yes, this is a WAY better final solution than the others germany has exported to the world
@@CBielski87 oh my god lmao
What country exactly doesn't have aluminum waste?
@@pinaerpowac4130 lol I work in aluminum billet casting in America for a company owned by the Chinese and you are spot on
Hydro has facilities all over the United States. I build these furnaces for a living.