Paper Title:

New Technique for “Cullet” Generation of Glass Bottles by Using Underwater Shockwave

Periodical Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 326 - 328)
Main Theme Experimental Mechanics in Nano and Biotechnology
Edited by Soon-Bok Lee and Yun-Jae Kim
Pages 1551-1554
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.326-328.1551
Citation Hidetoshi Sakamoto et al., 2006, Key Engineering Materials, 326-328, 1551
Online since December, 2006
Authors Hidetoshi Sakamoto, Shinjiro Kawabe, Kazuo Satoh, Masahiro Himeno, Shigeru Itoh
Keywords Glass-Cullet, High Speed Fracture, Recycle, Smashing Technology, Underwater Shock Wave
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Abstract

As the application technique for glass bottle’s recycling system, a new “Cullet” generation method by using underwater shock wave was proposed. This small fragmentation technique of glass bottles has a lot of excellent advantages such as the simplification of process by simultaneous cleaning and crushing operation, the high collect rate of “Cullet” and so on. In this study, the relation between of the explosive conditions and “Cullet” sizes were clarified and the high speed fracture process of glass bottle was observed by framing photograph of high speed image converter.