How do you separate copper from plastic?

Scrap copper wires can be recycled to get pure copper and plastic. How do you separate copper from plastic? There are several methods for separating copper from plastic, but the most common method is crushing and separating. This article will introduce it in detail.

Cable wire recycling machine

The crushing and separating method generally uses a cable wire recycling machine to separate copper from plastic, which is an environmental friendly and high return method. The working process of cable wire recycling machine mainly includes shredding, magnetic separation, crushing, air separation, line-vibrating screen and electrostatic separation.

Shredding: The first step is to shred the waste cables and wires into small pieces using a shredder.

Magnetic separation: To further improve the purity, a magnetic separator can be used to remove the iron, if the raw materials contain some iron plug.

Crushing: Using a crusher to crush these small pieces into small particles.

Air Separation: Due to the different gravity of copper and plastic, air separator can separate copper from plastic through wind blow and vibration, the pure copper comes out from one side and pure plastic comes out from the other side.

Working process

Line-vibrating screen: Line-vibrating screen is used to separate the copper from brass. The copper particles will fall to the next layer of the line-vibrating screen, and the brass pieces will stay on the upper layer, thereby achieving the separation of copper and brass.

Electrostatic separation: In order to get fine copper and plastic, the cable wire recycling machine is equipped with electrostatic separator. According to the different electrical properties of copper and plastic, the electrostatic separator can separate copper from plastic with the separating rate of 99.9%.

By using cable wire recycling machine, you can get pure copper and plastic from waste cables and wires. Both of them have wide application and can bring high profit to us.

Final products and application

Copper:

The separated copper can be sold with a considerable price in the metal trading market, or it can be made new products, like copper ingots, copper electrolysis, and then sell.

Plastic:

As for plastic, it can be sold directly as well. Or you can pellet the plastic into other products for sale, like wire cover, tray, blister sheet, mouse, keyboard, etc.

Henan Doing's cable wire recycling machine adopts dry physical separation method to separate copper from plastic, which won't damage the properties of metals, hence, the separated copper has good quality, which can be sold in the metal trading market with a pretty well price. Cable wire recycling machine is a good helper to start cable wire recycling machine, welcome to contact us, if you need one set.