Australia: Technology turns car waste into new materials
A recent invention by Professor Veena Sahajwalla at the University of New South Wales, Australia, has made the dream of turning waste from old cars into new materials come true.
A VNA reporter in Australia quoted Professor Sahajwalla, director of the Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre, as saying that this new technology uses non-recyclable parts of old cars, specifically silicon in glass, carbon in plastic parts, along with small pieces of steel, put through a reaction cycle to create a completely new silicon-iron alloy.
(Source: theaustralian.com.au)
The technology was just announced at a conference held in the US. The new alloy will be researched and evaluated by scientists before being put into practical application.
Professor Sahajwalla also won the 2012 Australian Innovation Challenge Award for his invention of using old tyres to produce steel.
The invention has been used by Professor Sahajwalla's partner, oneSteel, to help reduce the millions of old tires that are often buried in the ground because they cannot be recycled. The technology to turn tires into steel is now also used in many commercial production lines in Sydney (New South Wales) and Melbourne (Victoria); and is also exported to Thailand.
The above two technological processes have great appeal on a global scale due to the fact that the cost of separating raw materials as well as processing millions of tons of waste is too high./.
According to (TTXVN) - VT
