Print Email Facebook Twitter Excuse me Sir, but you appear to be full of lead: Customs X-ray detection system separates waste Title Excuse me Sir, but you appear to be full of lead: Customs X-ray detection system separates waste Author Schrauwers, A. Contributor De Jong, T. Kattentidt, H. Dalmijn, W.L. Date 2001 Abstract Waste separation has never been easy, but the increasing need to recycle materials has made it an economic necessity to rid useful components of any undesirable or even harmful ingredients. Just a handful of pottery shards in a mountain of recycled glass can have disastrous consequences for the finished glass product. Raw materials technologists at the department of Applied Earth Sciences at Delft University of Technology are currently developing a system that uses mathematical (Fourier) transformations, customs detection systems, and hammers to separate the sheep from the goats. The use of X-rays opens the way to separation methods that were impossible until now, including the recognition of oven-proof glass in a mass of normal glass. Subject Waste separationrecyclinghammersX-rays To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:318e3d60-2cf6-4147-a918-a4e7dbaf7773 Publisher Delft University of Technology ISSN 0926-7212 Source Delft Outlook, 2001, 2 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2001 Schrauwers, A. Files PDF Delft Outlook2001-2excuse.pdf 671.96 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:318e3d60-2cf6-4147-a918-a4e7dbaf7773/datastream/OBJ/view